ArticlesMediaCorporate Accountability, Inequalities, Memory and MemorialisationCorporate Remedy And Accountability A Decade After The Marikana MassacreToday, 16 August 2022, marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest episodes of violence in South Africa since the end of the Apartheid in 1994: the Marikana Massacre. In the early days of August 2012, workers of Lonmin Plc, a platinum mining company, staged an unprotected strike to demand a salary increase and protest against their poor living… Read More Hugo van der MerweAugust 19, 2022
MediaOur News and EventsPublicationsResearchAmnesty, Prosecutions and Pardons, Reconciliation, Transitional JusticeNew Book – Transitional Justice: Theories, Mechanisms and DebatesThe book presents the broad scope of transitional justice studies through a focus on the theory, mechanisms and debates in the area, covering such topics as: The origin, context and development of transitional justice Victims, victimology and transitional justice Prosecutions for abuses and gross violations of human rights Truth commissions Transitional justice and local justice Gender, political economy and transitional… Read More Hakeem Yusuf and Hugo van der MerweSeptember 7, 2021
ArticlesMediaTransitional JusticePress Release: Justice for Ahmed Timol and Other Apartheid VictimsThe South African Coalition for Transitional Justice (SACTJ) notes with deep concern the decision by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) that it does not intend to pursue charges against two apartheid Security Branch police officers, Seth Sons and Neville Els, implicated in the torture and murder of Ahmed Timol in 1971. Judge Billy Mothle ruled in the Gauteng High Court… Read More Hugo van der MerweJune 22, 2020
ArticlesMediaInequalitiesCombat Hunger and Poverty Caused by Covid-19As we enter a time where the fear of starvation becomes more prevalent than the fear of Covid-19, we need to look for more effective strategies to look after the needs of the most desperate in our communities. Government has moved decisively to address the health crisis brought on by Covid-19. Now we need to show equal resolve in responding… Read More Hugo van der MerweMay 5, 2020
PublicationsResearchPeacebuilding, Reconciliation, Transitional JusticeForging a Resilient Social Contract in South AfricaSince the advent of democracy in the 1990s, the South African political settlement has ushered into policy a progressive framework for the realization of socio-economic rights, enshrined by the Constitution. However, this political settlement has failed to translate into an economic and social settlement that results in just livelihood strategies and equitable service delivery that addresses historical grievances. Inadequate implementation… Read More Hugo van der Merwe and Masana Ndinga-KangaJanuary 21, 2020
PublicationsResearchTransitional JusticeAdvocating Transitional Justice in Africa: The Role of Civil SocietyThis edited volume examines the role of local civil society in shaping understandings and processes of transitional justice in Africa – a nursery of transitional justice ideas for well over two decades. It brings together practitioners and scholars with intimate knowledge of these processes to evaluate the agendas and strategies of local civil society, and offers an opportunity to reflect… Read More Hugo van der Merwe and Jasmina BrankovicSeptember 19, 2018
