Cape Town - The truth commission laying bare the brutal secrets of South Africa's apartheid past has been given three more months to complete its report, its chairman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, said yesterday.
"The research department will have to finish the report by the end of September . . . so that at the end of October we hand the finished product to the president," said Dr Tutu.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was originally due to have ended its work last December and to have handed the final report to President Nelson Mandela at the end of March. But so much evidence came in that it was granted an extension.