The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on

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The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on

Edited by Mia Swart · Karin van Marle
Brill Nijhoff August 2017

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ISBN-13
9789004339552
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Publication
August 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a noble attempt to begin to address the continuing traumatic legacy of Apartheid. This interdisciplinary collection critiques the work of the TRC 20 years since its establishment.

Taking the paralysing political and social crises of the mid-1990s in South Africa as starting point, the book contains a collection of responses to the TRC that considers the notions of crisis, judgment and social justice. It asks whether the current political and social crises in South Africa are linked to the country’s post-apartheid transitional mechanisms, specifically, the TRC.

The fact that the material conditions of the lives of many Apartheid victims have not improved, forms a major theme of the book. Collectively, the book considers the ‘unfinished business’ of the TRC.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Introduction

Part 1: Reflections
Rethinking Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Antjie Krog
“Meeting the Man who Organised a Bomb in My Car”
Albie Sachs

Part 2: Contributions
Jurisprudence after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission – ‘Welcoming Other Ways of Being’ and a ‘Jurisprudence of Sense’
Karin van Marle
Failure to Pursue Economic Reparations has, and Will Continue to Undermine Racial Reconciliation
William Gumede
Property in Transitional Times: The Glaring Absence of Property at the trc
Elmien du Plessis
Performing and Resisting the Post-trc ‘trauma-drama’: Survivor’s Narratives of Past and Present Violence in South Africa
Kim Wale
The Moral Imperative of the trc and the Question of Collective Guilt
Mia Swart
What Did the trc Teach South Africa about Democratic Citizenship?
Hugo van der Merwe
Real Zones of Indistinction: Crisis, Exception, Norm – and the trc as Biopolitical Imperative
Jaco Barnard-Naudé
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the Light of Ubuntu: A Comprehensive Appraisal
Thaddeus Metz
The Media Hearings of the trc: Lessons to Be Learnt for Transitional Justice Processes
Ylva Rodny-Gumede
Putting the J into the trc: Kenya’s Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission
Ronald C. Slye
Endnote
Karin van Marle
Index
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