Truth Reconciliation In South Africa

Author : Richard A. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521802199

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The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa by Richard A. Wilson Pdf

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid. However, the TRC's restorative justice approach did not always serve the needs of communities at a local level. Based on extended anthropological fieldwork, this book illustrates the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. It argues that the TRC had little effect on popular ideas of justice as retribution. This provocative study deepens our understanding of post-apartheid South Africa and the use of human rights discourse.

Author : Hugo van der Merwe,Audrey R. Chapman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Lyn S. Graybill
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Alex Boraine,Janet Levy,Ronel Scheffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UCSC:32106017974350

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Dealing with the Past by Alex Boraine,Janet Levy,Ronel Scheffer Pdf

Author : Mia Swart,Karin van Marle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Claire Moon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073659917

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Narrating Political Reconciliation by Claire Moon Pdf

Narrating Political Reconciliation offers a compelling approach to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It provides a critical theoretical account of how the TRC's reconciliation story came into being, and how it shaped and promoted the norms, practices and truisms central to the global 'reconciliation industry'. In particular, the book examines the material practices and rituals that underpinned the TRC. Claire Moon shows how the TRC narrated apartheid history as a sequence of gross violations of human rights perpetrated with a political objective, with the effect of transforming competing politico-moral claims into an 'objective' legal-technical discourse. She also shows how the TRC constructed victims and perpetrators as the key subjects of the new political order through ritual practices of confession, testimony, forgiveness and healing. Moon argues that, the TRC had multiple and divergent effects. Whilst it attempted to secure reconciliation, the TRC also generated new social conflicts around questions of justice, reparations and apartheid violence: it appeared to redeem those who profited from apartheid but did not directly perpetrate atrocities; it left unacknowledged the everyday suffering of thousands; it left undisturbed structures of material inequality within which political violence was made possible. Overall, Moon provides a unique approach to reconciliation and transitional justice in post-conflict and democratizing states, and this book serves as a challenging critical analysis of the field for students and scholars alike.

Author : Katherine Elizabeth Mack
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271065724

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From Apartheid to Democracy by Katherine Elizabeth Mack Pdf

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of South Africa’s new democracy. Other books on the TRC and deliberative rhetoric in contemporary South Africa emphasize the achievement of reconciliation during and in the immediate aftermath of the transition from apartheid. From Apartheid to Democracy, in contrast, considers the varied, complex, and enduring effects of the Commission’s rhetorical wager. It is the first book-length study to analyze the TRC through such a lens. Katherine Elizabeth Mack focuses on the dissension and negotiations over difference provoked by the Commission’s process, especially its public airing of victims’ and perpetrators’ truths. She tracks agonistic deliberation (evidenced in the TRC’s public hearings) into works of fiction and photography that extend and challenge the Commission’s assumptions about truth, healing, and reconciliation. Ultimately, Mack demonstrates that while the TRC may not have achieved all of its political goals, its very existence generated valuable deliberation within and beyond its official process.

Author : Catherine M. Cole
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Erik Doxtader,Philippe Joseph Salazar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Amnesty
ISBN : UOM:39015073941703

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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa by Erik Doxtader,Philippe Joseph Salazar Pdf

What are the political roots of South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission (TRC)? By what means did the Commission endeavor to understand South Africa's violent past and promote a spirit of national unity?

Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio,Fanie Du Toit
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1869286030

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Truth & Reconciliation in South Africa by Charles Villa-Vicencio,Fanie Du Toit Pdf

This series of articles by leading researchers, activists and government officials describes the response of government and other agencies to the unfinished business of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It also reflects on the role of the media, art and cultural exponents who grappled with South Africa's past.

Author : Edgar H. Brookes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000624410

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Apartheid by Edgar H. Brookes Pdf

Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which reflected reaction to these measures: Parliamentary debates, newspaper reports and policy statements by the leading political parties and religious denominations. The documents are headed by a full historical and analytical introduction.

Author : South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Publisher : Commission
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Amnesty
ISBN : UVA:X004844579

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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 : Alex Boraine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0195718054

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A Country Unmasked by Alex Boraine Pdf

The remarkable story of South Africa's "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" chronicles that country's journey towards national unity in the wake of Apartheid.

Author : Dorothy C. Shea
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Terry Bell,Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza
Publisher : Verso
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1859845452

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Unfinished Business by Terry Bell,Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza Pdf

This book pulls back the curtain on the 'political miracle' of the new South Africa.