The limits of transition : : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 years on / / edited by Mia Swart, Karin van Marle.

• TeilnehmendeR: Swart, Mia.; Marle, Karin van.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Introduction /; Reflections --; Rethinking Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission /; “Meeting the Man who Organised a Bomb in My Car” /; Contributions --; Jurisprudence after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission – ‘Welcoming Other Ways of Being’ and a ‘Jurisprudence of Sense’ /; Failure to Pursue Economic Reparations has, and Will Continue to Undermine Racial Reconciliation /; Property in Transitional Times: The Glaring Absence of Property at the trc /; Performing and Resisting the Post-TRC ‘Trauma-Drama’: Survivor’s Narratives of Past and Present Violence in South Africa /; The Moral Imperative of the trc and the Question of Collective Guilt /; What Did the trc Teach South Africa about Democratic Citizenship? /; Real Zones of Indistinction: Crisis, Exception, Norm – and the trc as Biopolitical Imperative /; South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the Light of Ubuntu: A Comprehensive Appraisal /; The Media Hearings of the trc: Lessons to Be Learnt for Transitional Justice Processes1 /; Putting the J into the trc: Kenya’s Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission /; Endnote /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004339566
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mia Swart, Karin van Marle.

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.