With the approach of the second anniversary of the handing over to the ANC-led government of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's five-volume report on South Africa's past conflict, the controversies generated by the findings are barely audible above a new and growing clamour.
While the TRC largely slipped into history with the release of the report, its amnesty committee has remained in existence to complete the task of assessing thousands of applications for amnesty from self-confessed perpetrators of human rights abuses.
Now, more than 21 months later, the amnesty committee is nearing the end of its mammoth task. The committee has assessed and delivered verdicts on more than 6,100 amnesty applications, the vast majority of which - more than 5,300 - were refused. A mere 177 applications are pending while a relatively small number of decisions - 301 - still have to be announced on applications which the committee has already heard.
But while nearly 800 perpetrators have been granted amnesty and thereby freed of civil as well as criminal liability for their actions, their victims are increasingly dissatisfied over the failure of the government to grant them meaningful reparations.
As a former Truth Commissioner, Ms Wendy Orr, makes clear in her book on the TRC, From Biko to Basson, the idea of granting reparations to victims was propagated to make the conferment of amnesty on perpetrators more palatable. "I believe the reparation debacle has made the TRC look like a bunch of incompetent liars," she writes. "Victims are extremely angry, disappointed and disenchanted."
According to Mr Hlengiwe Mkhize, chairperson of the Rehabilitation and Reparations Committee, some 16,000 victims have received urgent interim relief in the form of monetary grants of between R2,000 (about £250) and R5,000. But, she adds, government has not yet taken concrete steps to implement the TRC's more important recommendation: the granting of pensions of between R17,000 and R21,000 annually for six years to between 20,000 and 25,000 victims, at a cost of R3 billion.
Judging from the statements of ANC leaders, the government is loath to shoulder the expense of reparations of that order. The former president, Mr Nelson Mandela, has stated that the "best form of reparation" is the transformation of South African society, while President Thabo Mbeki has stated that "no fighter for liberation ever engaged in the struggle for personal gain".