The outcome of the TC was perverse. Between 1990 and 1994 alone, an estimated 13,000 to 21,000 South Africans were indemnified, whereas the TRC identified only 7,094 individuals as perpetrators. This is not only a gross undercount of perpetrators, but, as Sitze explains, “the majority” of those condemned “were, in concrete terms, drawn from the ranks of liberation movements.”46 The guilt established by the TRC was therefore the guilt of apartheid’s opponents, not of backers of the state who carried out atrocities in its name.
