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Healing Through Truth and Reconciliation

May 24, 2012
by BillMoyers.com Staff
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In this Moyers Moment from Bill Moyers’ documentary special Facing the Truth (1999), Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who headed South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the abolition of apartheid, says there’s catharsis in recounting the horrors of the past.

 

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TOPICS: Democracy & Government, Inequality
TAGS: apartheid, desmond tutu, moyers moment, race, south africa, truth and reconciliation
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