The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was started so that South Africans could talk about their experiences during apartheid and testify to the public (" For all voices, for all victims" by Antjie Krog, 2013). The main purpose of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was the hearings, which served as a guide to democracy and transition. In her poem “For All Voices, For All Victims”, Antjie Krog, used this poem as a response to the events of the apartheid era and the struggles of those who were oppressed in those years. Furthermore this poem reminds readers not only of the struggles experienced during apartheid, but continues to speak to the human rights that were violated to oppressed groups in South Africa and covers the multiple changes that had to occur for the rise of democracy to take place in effective way. Evidence of Antjie Krog using "For all the voices, for all the victims" as a response to apartheid: In her poem "For all the voices, for all the victims", Antjie Krog uses the first stanza as a support for the argument that “For All Voices, For All Victims” was in fact written in response to the struggles experienced during apartheid before the inception of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This evidence comes to life in the very first line, “thanks to you” (Krog, in Carolin, 2014: l.1) in her poem “For all voices, for all victims”, where Antjie Krog addresses someone: thanks to you this country is no longer among us but within us. The people we are addressing are those who were oppressed and victimized in the midst of the apartheid era. In this stanza the structure of the speech gives space to the reader to reason that both, concis... in the center of the paper... all his people, can also be considered as a nation in which all races unite as one , which is ultimately what the new South Africa represents (“For all voices, for all victims” by Antjie Krog, 2013). those who were forced during the apartheid era to take from the past and build on it to find their place in post-apartheid South Africa, which became a country where citizens felt they belonged. Works Cited Krog, Antjie. "For all the voices, for all the victims." Eng 2A – South African Poetry. Selected poems. Ed. Andrew Carolin, 2014, p. 6."For all voices, for all victims" by Antjie Krog. (2013, October 19) Retrieved April 28, 2014, from Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/denae7/antjie-krog-for-all-victims-for-all-voices.