What is the "terrible past" that the author refers to in the above passage?Your answer:O The system of ApartheidO The imprisonment of MandelaThe Boer WarsO The Zulu Massacre "To you and all the Commissioners and staff of the TRC [Truth andReconciliation Commission] we say, on behalf of the nation: Thank you forthe work you have done so far! If the pain has often been unbearable andthe revelations shocking to all of us, it is because they indeed bring us thebeginnings of a common understanding of what happened and a steadyrestoration of the nation's humanity. The TRC... was established by an Act ofParliament with overwhelming support. It is composed of individuals fromall backgrounds and persuasions. It has put the spotlight on all of us. . . .[W]e are confident that it has contributed to the work in progress of laying thefoundation of the edifice of reconciliation... Reconciliation requires that wework together to defend our democracy and the humanity proclaimed by ourConstitution.... The wounds of the period of repression and resistance are toodeep to have been healed by the TRC alone, however well it has encouraged usalong that path. Consequently, the Report that today becomes the property ofour nation should be a call to all of us to celebrate and to strengthen what wehave done as a nation as we leave our terrible past behind us forever.Let us celebrate our rich diversity as a people, the knowledge that whenthe TRC in its wisdom apportions blame, it points at previous state structures;political organisations [organizations]; at institutions and individuals, but neverat any community. Nor can any individual so identified claim that their brutaldeeds were the result of some character inherent in any community or languagegroup... Above all, we should remember that it was when South Africans ofall backgrounds came together for the good of all that we confounded theprophets of doom by bringing an end to this terrible period of our history."Nelson Mandela, statement on receiving the Truth andReconciliation Commission report, October, 1998

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What is the &#34;terrible past&#34; that the author refers to in the above passage?Your answer:O The system of ApartheidO The imprisonment of MandelaThe Boer WarsO The Zulu Massacre &#34;To you and all the Commissioners and staff of the TRC [Truth andReconciliation Commission] we say, on behalf of the nation: Thank you forthe work you have done so far! If the pain has often been unbearable andthe revelations shocking to all of us, it is because they indeed bring us thebeginnings of a common understanding of what happened and a steadyrestoration of the nation's humanity. The TRC... was established by an Act ofParliament with overwhelming support. It is composed of individuals fromall backgrounds and persuasions. It has put the spotlight on all of us. . . .[W]e are confident that it has contributed to the work in progress of laying thefoundation of the edifice of reconciliation... Reconciliation requires that wework together to defend our democracy and the humanity proclaimed by ourConstitution.... The wounds of the period of repression and resistance are toodeep to have been healed by the TRC alone, however well it has encouraged usalong that path. Consequently, the Report that today becomes the property ofour nation should be a call to all of us to celebrate and to strengthen what wehave done as a nation as we leave our terrible past behind us forever.Let us celebrate our rich diversity as a people, the knowledge that whenthe TRC in its wisdom apportions blame, it points at previous state structures;political organisations [organizations]; at institutions and individuals, but neverat any community. Nor can any individual so identified claim that their brutaldeeds were the result of some character inherent in any community or languagegroup... Above all, we should remember that it was when South Africans ofall backgrounds came together for the good of all that we confounded theprophets of doom by bringing an end to this terrible period of our history.&#34;Nelson Mandela, statement on receiving the Truth andReconciliation Commission report, October, 1998

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The System of Apartheid.

What is the "terrible past" that the author refers to in the above passage? Your answer: O The system of Apartheid O The imprisonment of Mandela The Boer Wars The Zulu Massacre