The subsequent report looks to reflect on the relationship between South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (hereafter referred to as the TRC) and the country's national police agency, the South African Police Service (SAPS), in order to assess whether the…
In and of itself, the brief account of the murder of an eight month-old baby along with the baby's mother in the course of a massacre partially explained as political motivation during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, with 17…
How did a truth commission examining the final thirty four years of apartheid manage to construct an account of the past that did not place race center stage? This article will argue that a constellation of ideological contexts and practical…
The following paper evaluates the contribution of the South African TRC to current understandings of history, identity, and reconciliation. The argument presented here is that the TRC, in its determined pursuit of a particular kind of reconciliation, was ironically silent…
This paper uses the interviews conducted by Bernard Spong (alongside previous research by the author) to examine the way the church interacted with the TRC and how this has affected the approach of the church in addressing the challenge of…
This paper examines aspects of structural violence in South Africa and suggests that true reconciliation can be achieved only if these aspects are redressed. The structural violence of the past has vital implications for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's enterprise to acknowledge and rewrite an often denied history of human rights abuses. It raises vital questions as to the nature of economic development and its relation to new and ongoing forms of social conflict.