Addressing a media briefing after the third day of the commission's Durban hearings, Boraine said the commission would investigate facilitating private meetings in the interests of reconciliation.
"It's a huge task, but we would certainly try and do whatever we can. We would not prescribe the method. We would simply establish the opportunity... . In some instances it may well be possible.
"It's highly probable that quite a lot of (meetings) would be held privately. If it could help the healing of those involved in torture then it would be a major plus," Boraine said.
The legislation governing the commission already made provision for victims to be present at amnesty hearings when perpetrators appeared before the commission's amnesty committee, he said.
His comments followed detailed testimony from witnesses regarding various forms of physical and mental torture while in detention.
Former activist Haroon Aziz told the commission he wanted to meet the policemen who had tortured him during nine months of imprisonment.
"If they (the interrogators) sincerely repent for their past then there shouldn't be a problem," he said. "But if they don't, I would have a problem with that."
He said he had been arrested in September 1974 under the Terrorism Act but had never been charged for his alleged offences.
"In order to extract information they used to grab my head and bang it against the wall. If they were not satisfied with my answers they used to hit me on the penis, sometimes squeeze it.
"I used to scream and shout and they used to laugh like mad hyenas."
His interrogators had also made him sit on an "invisible chair" with his knees bent and his arms outstretched.
"Eventually when I fell I was kicked."
Testifying earlier Jericho Nzama and his son Sibongisene told the commission they had been severely beaten when 10 armed white men wearing SA Defence Force uniforms raided their Umlazi house in Durban in June 1990.
Nzama said the men had smashed up his house and kicked and beaten him with gun butts while allegedly searching for weapons.
Sibongisene said he had been beaten so that his head swelled to twice its normal size.
Witness Nombuso Majola told the commission KwaZulu Police had killed her brother after they burst into her Lamontville home west of Durban in 1990.
The attackers, in plain clothes, had shot Austin Majola at close range and then left him to bleed to death in his bedroom, she said.
Rosemary Cele described how police had arrested her son Bongani, who was later shot dead while allegedly trying to escape from custody.
She said police had accused Bongani, a United Democratic Front supporter, of storing weapons in her backyard.
"Towards the end of July (1987) the police arrived at my house with Bongani in handcuffs, searching for the weapons. They left and told me that Bongani would never be seen again."