Development of TRC Special Report multimedia packages:

In a project funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, SAHA, in conjunction with the Race and Values Directorate of the Department of Education, is producing complete sets of the 78 Special Report television programmes on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to be used for educational purposes in South Africa.

Broadcast nationally between 1996 and 1998, the weekly Special Report reported on the testimonies being heard at public TRC hearings across South Africa during that time. These audio-visual records form a critical resource that helps to present, in an accessible and powerful way, what the TRC was attempting to achieve. They provide a powerful window into the conflicts of the past and ongoing challenges for reconciliation.

The Special Report programmes will be packaged for distribution on portable hard drives along with user-friendly finding aids, descriptions and analysis relating to specific incidents or thematic foci of the TRC, as well as a range of links to domestic and international internet sites dealing with related transitional justice concerns.

This unique resource will be distributed free of charge to tertiary educational establishments in 2010. It will also be distributed to institutions working in the field of transitional justice and reconciliation, particularly those working with victim / survivor groups.