This evening, the South African Historical Archives (SAHA) received a detailed repsonse to the request it submitted to the TRC Unit for information on which TRC-identified individuals had managed to access reparations in the interim period between the payment of final reparations packages of R30,000.00 to TRC-identified victims and the present gazetting of reparaitons regulations.

Significantly, it has taken the DOJ just one week to give the SACTJ answers to their questions.This is the kind of responsiveness that we have been seeking for the six years since the institution of the TRC Unit in the Department of Justice.

On 11 May 2011, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJ&CD) gazetted regulations for the payment of educational assistance and health benefits exclusively to victims identified by the TRC. The regulations were gazetted after a very superficial consultation process with victims and other stakeholders.