FW de Klerk - Nobel laureate
Former South African president FW de Klerk who died at the age of 85 in Cape Town, was one of only four South Africans to receive the presti...
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20 of 38 episodesFW de Klerk - 2 February 1992
South Africa's last white president, FW de Klerk, who has died at the age of 85 in Cape Town, will be remembered for effectively ending apar...
FW de Klerk - The call for blood
The National Party in the form of its leader, FW de Klerk, appeared before the Truth Commission in Cape Town in August 1996 and May 1997. De...
The life of Nelson Mandela
Former President Nelson Mandela was South Africa’s first democratically elected Head of State. His five-year presidency from 1994 to 1999 wa...
Nelson Mandela - The voice
Former president Nelson Mandela wasn't a brilliant orator like Winston Churchill, John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King or Barack Obama. But Ma...
The Soweto uprising 1976 - You kill one, you kill all
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s first-ever partial event hearing took place at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in S...
The Constitutional Court of South Africa
After a long process to choose a design and construct a building, the new South African Constitutional Court building, the flagship structur...
The Apartheid Museum
Most people would frown at a casino consortium agreeing to build a museum for its licence. But that’s exactly what Gold Reef City has done w...
Dirk Coetzee - Till the day I die
He was unknown to the Security Police at Vlakplaas near Pretoria until they were told to "make a plan" with him. Several banning orders, lon...
Who killed the Cradock Four?
They became known as the Cradock Four: Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkhonto and Sicelo Mhlauli. On the 27th of June 1985, these four...
Eugene de Kock - A thousand shades of grey
The media painted him as the arch-villain of the apartheid era and labelled him "Prime Evil". The Truth Commission singled him out as the ma...
Doctor death
The apartheid government’s top-secret Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme sealed the Truth Commission’s investigations into gross huma...
Chris Hani - I believe in the cause
One incident that pushed South Africa to the brink of anarchy was the assassination of Communist Party leader Chris Hani. Millions loved him...
Steve Biko - The fatal blow
The Truth Commission was a bitter pill to swallow for the family of black consciousness leader Steve Bantu Biko. But it was even harder for...
PW Botha - Salute me!
Convicted former president PW Botha was the one crucial apartheid politician who could have shed more light on the official sanctioning of g...
PW Botha - The great crocodile
PW Botha personified apartheid and the old National Party for most South Africans. For eleven years between 1978 and 1989, he ruled the coun...
Fatima Meer - Whirlwind in the Sari
Veteran activist and sociologist, Professor Fatima Meer championed equality and social justice. Under apartheid, she was banned, detained an...
Nadine Gordimer - Taking stock
Seamus Heaney called her "one of the great guerrillas of the imagination"; the Nobel Committee called her "a magnificent epic writer" and th...
Remembering the SS Mendi
They were warriors, not soldiers. Black South Africans recruited as labourers to serve in World War One under the British flag. But, they we...
Van Zyl Slabbert - A philosophical anarchist
Respected political analyst and former official opposition leader, Dr Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert played a key role in South Africa's transiti...
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