(10/26/1998) Commission officials could not immediately be reached for comment. (10/26/1998) The 3,500-page report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission culminates more than two years of nationwide hearings. (10/31/1998) The 3,500-page report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, released on 10/29/1998, is the most comprehensive and unsparing examination of a nation's ugly past that any such commission has yet produced. (10/31/1998) Drawing from the commission's own investigations and the testimony of hundreds of applicants for amnesty and 20,000 victims, the report is a detailed look at the crimes of the apartheid era, and blames successive white governments for the vast majority.