As a servant and a situational leader, Mandela's most abiding contribution to South Africa's emerging democracy was the support he gave to the creation and execution of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He resisted overwhelming pressure from within the ANC to downplay human rights violations committed by exiled ANC cadres who had been in charge of detention camps outside the country, where ANC dissidents were held. The vital moment came when Mandela, as head of state, accepted the Truth Commission report which, while indicting apartheid, also had harsh words for ANC members guilty of gross human rights abuses.