Mary Burton: A heart for South Africa ,MAVERICK CITIZEN retrieved 2025-04-04 - Mary Burton

I do think about it a lot,’ she says. “It’s intellectually interesting to think about what might be done, to try and find solutions

However, I came home at night to a family, most of my days. There were people who worked for the TRC who did not have that kind of support. And I think many of them carry much more trauma from that time than I do. The problem was, hearing so many stories. You might not have paid enough attention to each one, the attention each and every one deserved

The daily hearing of the stories, I think it took everybody on the TRC into some very dark places