The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was an independent legal body established after the abolition of apartheid to assist South African society in achieving a peaceful transition. Based on the two main concepts of healing and forgiveness, the TRC achieved its goal through three committees: the Human Rights Violations Committee, the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee, and the Amnesty Committee. Participants identified as victims of racial injustice and gross human rights violations would speak about their miserable experiences in open court and be heard with dignity; perpetrators of violations could seek amnesty which would be granted through passing testimony and a public hearing. Apparently, the public hearings provided the victims with the opportunity to release their tortured memories of the past and to assuage their hatred of dark history; amnesty would guarantee impunity and pardon for perpetrators who were manipulated by political motives. For years, the TRC was seen as the most effective and successful justice that healed hatred among South Africans and encouraged them to move forward. Many scholars and politicians believe that the TRC laid the peaceful foundation for South Africa's future development. However, when we read cases like that of a mother who recalled the memory of her son's death and who could observe her son's killer walking freely in the street, how could we say that TRC contributed only to positive health effects? South African people? Therefore, this article will be based on the answer to the question: what criticisms have been leveled at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa? TRC effort. Criticisms of the TRC primarily revealed concerns about whether the TRC could be adopted by individual South Africans. Public hearings on gross human rights violations make an ambiguous effort to heal individual victims and subtly pressure victims to forgive perpetrators who killed their loved one. The amnesty process sacrificed the victims' sense of justice to illustrate the great improvement of Ubuntu in South Africa. Furthermore, South Africa also did not believe that the TRC could effectively alleviate the intense conflict between black and white groups. South Africa, as the most multicultural, multilingual and multiethnic country in the world, was in a unique position in navigating the path to solving the problem of the bloody and dark history of apartheid. The contribution of the TRC still needs further study.