The limits of transition : : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 years on / / 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-1...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (324 pages)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mia Swart
  • 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
  • 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 Processes1 / Ylva Rodny-Gumede
  • Putting the J into the trc: Kenya’s Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission / Ronald C. Slye
  • Endnote / Karin van Marle.