The subsequent report outlines the five phases of the process that focused on a community centred approach to memorialization. This report aims to give practitioners working within the field of memorialization a detailed understanding of the process that was undertaken…
On June 15 1994, the senior specialised auxillary service officer wrote: "I am in the service of the Transvaal Provincial Administration and employed as a senior mortuary officer at the mortuary of the Baragwaneth Hospital of Johannesburg. "On 1996/06/11 at…
Statistics, in and of themselves make for boring conversation and dull reading. Yet they leap to volatile political life when used to make arguments about race and violence, sex and death – as the angry exchanges between President Thabo Mbeki,…
This is a report prepared for the Victim Offender Conferencing Project (VOC) , August 2004. The report reviews the cases dealt with during the 2002/03 year, compares them with cases mediated in the previous two years, and reviews whether these…
A Spanish translation of a study by Nahla Valji, 'Balancing Reconciliation and Reparation' in emerging super powers.
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…