Performing South Africa S Truth Commission

Author : Catherine M. Cole
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 9780253353900

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Performing South Africa's Truth Commission by Catherine M. Cole Pdf

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions helped to end apartheid by providing a forum that exposed the nation's gross human rights abuses, provided amnesty and reparations to selected individuals, and eventually promoted national unity and healing. The success or failure of these commissions has been widely debated, but this is the first book to view the truth commission as public ritual and national theater. Catherine M. Cole brings an ethnographer's ear, a stage director's eye, and a historian's judgment to understand the vocabulary and practices of theater that mattered to the South Africans who participated in the reconciliation process. Cole looks closely at the record of the commissions, and sees their tortured expressiveness as a medium for performing evidence and truth to legitimize a new South Africa.

Author : Dorothy C. Shea
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 9781929223091

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The South African Truth Commission by Dorothy C. Shea Pdf

In the latter half of the 1990s, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) offered the country the chance to build a better future by facing up to its past. Amid saturation media coverage, victims of human rights abuses told their harrowing stories and perpetrators confessed to horrendous acts. Meanwhile, the commissioners grappled with decisions that would not only apportion responsibility and grant or deny amnesty but also have a profound political and social impact. To this highly charged, controversial subject, Dorothy Shea brings a rare combination of objectivity, thoroughness, and a firm grasp of both the principles and the political interests at stake. She begins by investigating the origins of the TRC in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy, and she examines the extent to which it learned from the experiences of earlier, Latin American commissions. Then she focuses on how the politics of the TRC were played out in issues such as amnesty, reparations, and prosecutions. Her report on the TRC offers a generally positive assessment and explains not only how South Africa measured up but also why. Finally, Shea draws lessons from the TRC experience that may help to inform future efforts to shape and establish truth commissions in other transitional societies.

Author : Mia Swart,Karin van Marle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004339569

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The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on by Mia Swart,Karin van Marle Pdf

The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on is an interdisciplinary collection that celebrates and critiques the work of the TRC after 20 years. The authors consider whether the TRC has continued relevance for South Africa. The book further explores the legacy of the ‘unfinished business’ of the TRC.

Author : John Perry,T. Debey Sayndee
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498504089

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African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice by John Perry,T. Debey Sayndee Pdf

Using an inductive methodology based on one key component of transitional justice—namely, truth commissions—African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice attempts to place them within the context of other elements such as trials of human rights abusers, the strengths and weaknesses of amnesty, and the importance of memorialization.

Author : Piet Meiring
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781725234161

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Chronicle of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Piet Meiring Pdf

For two-and-a-half years South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was on everybody's lips. Newspapers and radio programs reported daily on the work of the Commission, and the faces of victims and offenders alike appeared on millions of television screens. In Chronicle of the Truth Commission, Pieter Meiring sheds light on the work of the Truth Commission: the stories and testimonies of victims, the applications for amnesty by offenders guilty of violating human rights, the necessary confrontations with the past, and the need for forgiveness and reconciliation. Meiring presents the course of the Truth Commission as a symbolic quest, an epic journey back into the past and onwards to the new future, a great trek that would leave not a single South African unaffected.

Author : South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Publisher : Commission
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Amnesty
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118024913

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report by South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission Pdf

CD-ROM contains full text of print volumes and expanded name index.

Author : Hugo van der Merwe,Audrey R. Chapman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0812240596

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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa by Hugo van der Merwe,Audrey R. Chapman Pdf

"Of the truth commissions to date, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has most effectively captured public attention throughout the world and provided the model for succeeding bodies. Although other truth commissions had preceded its establishment, the TRC had a far more expansive mandate: to go beyond truth-finding to promote national unity and reconciliation, to facilitate the granting of amnesty to those who made full factual disclosure, to restore the human and civil dignity of victims by providing them an opportunity to tell their own stories, and to make recommendations to the president on measures to prevent future human rights violations.

Author : Charles Villa-Vincencio,Wilhelm Verwoerd
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048523792

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Looking Back, Reaching Forward by Charles Villa-Vincencio,Wilhelm Verwoerd Pdf

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu is widely recognized as a defining experience in South Africa's transition to democratic and non-racial rule. This anthology, uniquely combining contributions by some of the Commissioners and their staff, those who bore witness, and scholars, reviews the context in which the TRC did its work.

Author : Deborah Posel,Graeme Simpson
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051915430

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Commissioning the Past by Deborah Posel,Graeme Simpson Pdf

This work includes the uncensored voices of survivors of human rights abuses who testified before South Africa's Truth and Reconcilation Commission and in whose name the hearings were undertaken. The views of three groups with different perspectives are reported: academic scholars, commissioners and researchers and people who related stories of victimization perpetrated on themselves or a family member. The emerging dialogue between "outsiders" and "insiders, " and between national, local, and individual experiences is a distinguishing feature of the book.

Author : South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : LCCN:99014724

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report by South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission Pdf

Author : Lyn S. Graybill
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1588260577

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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa by Lyn S. Graybill Pdf

Graybill (mind and human interaction, U. of Virginia) provides students not only the facts about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but also the broader context in which it operated. She asks whether it led to reconciliation and healing, what criteria were used to decide whether to pardon or punish, whether politics necessitated the compromise, and other questions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 2944 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1561592455

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report by NA NA Pdf

South's Africa's violent and complex history is chronicled in the five-volume Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, a chilling record of the hearings that exposed atrocities perpetrated by the South African apartheid government and opposing parties over the thirty-four year period of 1960-1994. A guide to using the report, synopsis, glossary, table of key events, an index, and a fully searchable and networkable CD-ROM have been added to this edition, enhancing its value for educators and scholars.

Author : Anthea Jeffery
Publisher : Sairr
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062046151

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The Truth about the Truth Commission by Anthea Jeffery Pdf

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 2944 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1561592455

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report by NA NA Pdf

South's Africa's violent and complex history is chronicled in the five-volume Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, a chilling record of the hearings that exposed atrocities perpetrated by the South African apartheid government and opposing parties over the thirty-four year period of 1960-1994. A guide to using the report, synopsis, glossary, table of key events, an index, and a fully searchable and networkable CD-ROM have been added to this edition, enhancing its value for educators and scholars.

Author : Jane Taylor,William Kentridge,Handspring Puppet Company
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1919713166

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Ubu and the Truth Commission by Jane Taylor,William Kentridge,Handspring Puppet Company Pdf

"Ubu and the Truth Commission" is the full play text of a multi-dimensional theatre piece that tries to make sense of the madness that overtook South Africa during apartheid.