Truth

DAWIE BOTHA
Undertaker, Vlakplaas, March 1998
One of the immediate results of the Truth Commission hearings was that some of the
perpetrators, particularly members of the white security police and the SADF who confessed
to the abduction and murder of anti-apartheid activists, disclosed where the bodies of their
victims were buried. For the victims’ families, many of whom had waited years, not knowing
what had happened to their spouses, their parents or their children, this was often the first
confirmation that their missing relatives were actually dead. Once the locations were known,
exhumations supervised by officials from the TRC took place all over South Africa.
Designed by Tony Sutton (www.coldtype.net)