The Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa after the abolition of apartheid.

The TRC, the first of the nineteen held internationally to stage public hearings, was seen by many as a crucial component of the transition to full and free democracy in South Africa.

The work of the TRC was accomplished through three committees:

In a survey study by Jay and Erika Vora, the effectiveness of the TRC Commission was measured on a variety of levels, namely its usefulness in terms of bringing out the truth of what had happened during the apartheid regime, the feelings of reconciliation that could be linked to the Commission, and the positive effects both domestically and internationally that the Commission brought about in a variety of ways from the political environment of South Africa to the economic one.

The TRC was viewed as much less effective in bringing about reconciliation by each group, with the two white groups about par and the Xhosa viewing the TRC as less effective than the other two ethnic groups.

Most believed that justice was a prerequisite for reconciliation rather than an alternative to it, and that the TRC had been weighted in favour of the perpetrators of abuse.

Another dilemma facing the TRC was how to do justice to the testimonials of those witnesses for whom translation was necessary.

The family opposed amnesty for his killers on these grounds and brought a legal action in South Africa's highest court, arguing that the TRC was unconstitutional.

One TRC letter said that a bomb in the aircraft's wheel bay was set to detonate when the wheels came down for a landing.

The Tasmanian Turf Club ( TTC ) was formed in 1871, but the major club, the Tasmanian Racing Club ( TRC ), was not established until 1874.

In the June 2009 final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was established as part of the 2003 peace deal, the TRC recommended Johnson's inclusion on a list of 50 people who should be " specifically barred from holding public offices ; elected or appointed for a period of thirty ( 30 ) years " for " being associated with former warring factions.

In January 2011 the Supreme Court ruled in Williams v. Tah, a case brought by another person recommended for disqualification in the TRC report, that the TRC's recommendation was an unconstitutional violation of the listed individuals ' right to procedural due process, and that it would be unconstitutional for the government to implement the proposed bans.

Asked about his views on the TRC, Coetzee has stated: " In a state with no official religion, the TRC was somewhat anomalous: a court of a certain kind based to a large degree on Christian teaching and on a strand of Christian teaching accepted in their hearts by only a tiny proportion of the citizenry.

Subsequent to the Basson trial, Theron never bothered to apply for amnesty from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) as he was never formally charged with the crimes he claimed to have committed.

In 1998, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) found that the police actions constituted " gross human rights violations in that excessive force was unnecessarily used to stop a gathering of unarmed people.

Although this company would continue the work of research on improvements to the basic design of the car and would issue sets of specifications three times in the ensuing years, because TRC defined a PCC car as any vehicle which utilized patents on which it collected royalties, it was formed for the primary purpose of controlling those patents and promoting the standardization envisioned by the ERPCC.

In 1990, a reformed version of the band, with only Surkamp and Rayburn from the original line-up along with some contribution from Scorfina, recorded Lost in America for US label Telectro Records, which was re-released worldwide by Rockville Music in 2007, after TRC also having illegally bootlegged it in the late 1990s.

A remastered CD was first released in 1985 on MCA, then again in 1995 on the band's TRC label, and for a third time in 2004 on the band's label TML Entertainment ( formerly TRC Records ).

The New Deal allowed the TRC to set national oil policy.

As visitors to the MTC, volunteers must pick up a guest pass at the main desk before going to the TRC.

When the TRC hearings were completed in 1997, Krog took up the post of Parliamentary Editor at SABC.

At the end of the TSR franchise, the city ran the railway for eight months, but ended up granting another 30-year franchise to a private operator, the TRC.

At the end of the TSR franchise, the city ran the railway for eight months, but ended up granting a new thirty-year franchise to the Toronto Railway Company ( TRC ) in 1891.

In terms of its mandate, it is to manage and direct investigations and prosecutions relating to: criminal prosecutions arising from the Rome Statute ; crimes against the State, including national and international terrorism ; matters emanating from the Truth and Reconciliation process ( the " TRC ") and contraventions of The Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act ( Act No 15 of 1998 ), the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act ( Act No 87 of 1993 ), The National Conventional Arms Control Act ( Act No 41 of 2002 ), The Nuclear Energy Act ( Act No 46 of 1999 ) and The Intelligence Services Act ( Act No 65 of 2002 ).

Third, it is biographical, in terms of the author being extremely honest, open, and self-analytical about her own position and experience relative to the TRC-racially as a white Afrikaner, professionally as a radio journalist, emotionally as someone grappling with her nation's bloody past, and personally as her experiences covering the TRC affect her intimate life.

A 1998 study by South Africa's Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation & the Khulumani Support Group, which surveyed several hundred victims of human-rights abuse during the Apartheid era, found that most felt that the TRC had failed to achieve reconciliation between the black and white communities.

Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) suggested that Project Coast researchers were also looking into putting birth control substances in water supplies.

On 19 August 1998, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ), stated that recently uncovered letters had implicated the British MI5, the American CIA, and then South African intelligence services in the crash.

In August 2008, before a Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) in Monrovia, former Justice Minister under Samuel Doe, Cllr.

For two years, reporting as Antjie Samuel, she contributed to the radio programme AM Live with items on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ).

He was later granted amnesty at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) which provided for amnesty in return for complete disclosure of acts of politically motivated violence, after the ANC changed their early denials of involvement to a claim that they ordered the bombing.

* 29 November – Desmond Tutu is appointed chairperson of the 17 member Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) president Nelson Mandela

The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) ( in Spanish: Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación ( CVR )) ( June 2001-28 August 2003 ) was established in 2001 after the fall of president Alberto Fujimori, to examine abuses committed during the 1980s and 1990s, when Peru was plagued by the worst political violence in the history of the republic.

In 1996, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) began to investigate the SADF and determined that the army had probably used lethal toxins against ANC activists.

Country of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog primarily about the findings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ).

The TRC had a number of high profile members: Archbishop Desmond Tutu ( chairman ), Dr. Alex Boraine ( Deputy Chairman ), Mary Burton, Advocate Chris de Jager, Bongani Finca, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Sisi Khampepe, Richard Lyster, Wynand Malan, Reverend Khoza Mgojo, Hlengiwe Mkhize, Dumisa Ntsebeza ( head of the Investigative Unit ), Dr. Wendy Orr, Advocate Denzil Potgieter, Mapule Ramashala, Dr. Fazel Randera, Yasmin Sooka and Glenda Wildschut.

The success of the " TRC method " versus the " Nuremberg method " of prosecution is open for debate.

All participants perceived the TRC to be effective in bringing out the truth, however, in varying degrees.

Some of Ingrid de Kok's poetry in Terrestrial Things ( 2002 ) deals with the TRC ( e. g. The Archbishop Chairs the First Session, The Transcriber Speaks, The Sound Engineer ).

Biko's family described the TRC as a " vehicle for political expediency ", which " robbed " them of their right to justice.

The TRC is unquestionably a monumental process, the consequences of which will take years to unravel.

* The Civil Cooperation Bureau, an apartheid hit squad much discussed in the final TRC report.

enables the receiver to use the TRC to detect which byte the error occurred in, and the LRC to detect exactly which track the error occurred in, to discover exactly which bit is in error, and then correct that bit by flipping it.

In telecommunications, a transverse redundancy check ( TRC ) or vertical redundancy check is a redundancy check for synchronized parallel bits applied once per bit time, across the bit streams.

An example of a TRC is the parity written to the 9th track of a 9 track tape.