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 discrimination of any kind including race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, age, language, religion, nationality, political or other opinion, cultural beliefs or practices, property, birth or family status, ethnic or social origin or disability.
c. Procedures for dealing with applications by victims shall be expeditious, fair, inexpensive and accessible.
 d. Victims shall be informed through the Press and any other media of their rights on seeking redress through the Commission".
But in fact this bias works to the advantage of perpetrators.  Almost all who have testified thus far have amazed us, have amazed the world with their willingness to forgive. They want not to revenge themselves against perpetrators.  They are not looking for retribution, but quite remarkably they do want to forgive.  Some, even more extraordinarily say we have already forgiven them, Mrs Savage in King Williamstown, the people who testified in Cape Town from St James Massacre.
 Our credentials as champions of human rights, of justice, of fairness and reconciliation should not be in dispute.  They are a matter of public record.  We oppose an evil and vicious system which denied a very large part of our society fundamental human rights.  Those, especially in the security establishment, whether they intended it or not, were defending an evil system which did not accord people their rights.  We succeeded in our struggle so that today even those who defended that awful system could today claim constitutional and other human rights.  It is precisely because of our record as fighters for justice and human JOHANNESBURG HEARING TRC/