MediaOur News and EventsTransitional JusticeThe TRC and Apartheid Beneficiaries in a New DispensationIntroduction Reconciliation requires a commitment, especially by those who have benefited and continue to benefit from past discrimination, to the transformation of unjust inequalities and dehumanising poverty. TRC Report, Vol. 5, Ch. 9 The challenge is clear, but how do we make this requirement for reconciliation a reality? How do we bridge the gap between the transformation ideal advocated in… Read More CSVROctober 27, 2000
ArticlesMediaTransitional JusticeMed Schools Still Seeking a CureThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) recommendation that medical schools should increase the intake of black students at undergraduate and postgraduate level has failed to solve racial imbalances in the provision of doctors in the country. Although the recommendation helps set a moral guideline for institutions it lacks the capacity and necessary pragmatism to facilitate demographic change in the health… Read More CSVRSeptember 29, 2000
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsMagistrates Under Apartheid: A Case Study of Professional Ethics and the Politicisation of JusticeThis paper is both a response to, and an off-shoot from, one of the TRC's legal sector hearings, held in October 1997. The hearings revealed the extent to which the legal profession became complicit in the implementation of apartheid. Magistrates performed crucial functions in relation to political detainees, including overseeing the complaints and safeguard machinery. It was on the complaints… Read More Paul Gready and Lazarus KgalemaAugust 1, 2000
PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsCreating a Space for Remembrance: The Healing of Memories ProcessThe aim of this report is to examine the 'Healing of Memories' (HOM) process as one intervention in the larger discourse around truth and reconciliation in South Africa since 1994 until today. HOM workshops present one of the few institutionalised post-TRC spaces for South Africans to consciously and practically engage with personal memories and with each other about the apartheid… Read More Undine Whande KayserJanuary 3, 2000
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsTransformation of the Magistracy: Balancing Independence and Accountability in the New Democratic OrderThis report documents this ongoing tension between independence and accountability as it affects the magistracy. It does so through three case studies that can be framed as encounters with the independence-accountability issue: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the lay assessor system, and social context training. Read More Lazarus Kgalema and Paul GreadyJanuary 3, 2000
PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsRebuilding Fractured Societies: Reconstruction, Reconciliation and the Changing Nature of Violence – Some Self-Critical Insights from Post-Apartheid South AfricaBased primarily on the South African experience, this discussion paper will attempt to offer a broad analysis of some of the key challenges faced by societies emerging from intense conflict, or making the often painful transition from autocratic rule to democracy. In so doing, it will reflect self-critically on some of the challenges of transformation, reconciliation, democratisation and - in… Read More Graeme SimpsonJanuary 3, 2000
