Was justice served by South Africa's peace accord?

<p>The apartheid era in South Africa ended in 1991 with the National Peace Accords. The peace agreement also paved the way for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Yet TRC head Desmond Tutu considered the process “scandalously unfinished.” Lawyer Prakash Diar agrees: "You don’t undo centuries of colonization just like that.”</p><p><br></p><p>Diar and writer Kagiso Lesego Molope were young activists in apartheid-era South Africa. They saw the toll that oppression and state violence took: on their families, communities, and themselves. In our fourth episode of our series<em> Inventing Peace</em>, they consider the history of the history of this pivotal peace agreement and what other countries might learn. <em>*This episode originally aired on Sept. 22, 2025.</em></p>