“I slaughtered him. I slaughtered him like a goat." These were the words Jerry Richardson, head of the Mandela United Football Club, spoke during a Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing. Richardson was giving a detailed account of how he brutally killed 14-year-old Stompie Seipei. Many other cases involving similar and even worse cruelty were brought to light during the tenure of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or TRC. The TRC was created as a temporary commission whose purpose was to consider amnesty requests and bring restorative justice to the victims of apartheid. Apartheid, a model that oppressed non-whites and treated them as subhuman, plagued South Africa for nearly half a century. Colonized in the 1600s by both the English and the Dutch, South Africa remained under the power of the colonialists' descendants even after gaining independence. One legacy of this domination by Europeans was the hideous and disgusting legacy of apartheid. Yet another legacy, a legacy of hope, forgiveness and reconciliation would in time emerge as a dignified feature of South Africa. As a pastor of the South African people and a staunch opponent of the apartheid regime, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu contributed to a large extent to the new legacy of the South African people. The mission and commitments of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Commissioner Desmond Tutu represent a revolutionary model of peaceful restoration and democratization for other Third World countries devastated by the legacy of colonialism. The journey to becoming a model of reconciliation for other countries besieged by violence has been a long process for South Africa and those who suffered abuse under apartheid. Desmond Tutu is one of those people who have been degraded simply because of their skin