PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsGangs, Pagad and the State: Vigilantism and Revenge Violence in the Western CapeThis booklet was funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The Violence and Transition Series is a product of an extensive research project conducted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) into the nature and extent of violence during South Africa's transition from apartheid rule to democracy. The booklet goes on to provide a short history,… Read More Bill Dixon and Lisa-Marie JohnsMay 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsSupporting Post-Conflict Reconciliation: An Assessment of International Assistance to South Africa's Truth CommissionThe basic purpose of this study is to provide a baseline understanding of the role of international assistance in the TRC process, upon which future policy can be built. Duncan McPherson looks first to analyse the instances of international assistance provided to the TRC to determine what aid worked well and why or why not. He then seeks to extract… Read More Duncan McPhersonApril 2, 2001
PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsWhat Do We Tell Our Children? The Work of the Centre for Ubuntu in Cape Town (Formerly the Religious Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission)The research, on which this report is based, focused on the creation process, the intervention activities and subsequent changes that The Centre for Ubuntu (formerly the Religious Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) initiative has undergone since its formation in 1994. The report is meant to provide an insight into the history and operation of the initiative (the original… Read More Undine Whande KayserFebruary 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchTorture and State Violence, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions'We Are Still Struggling': Storytelling, Reparations and Reconciliation After the TRCSince the end of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), there have been few institutionalised spaces for South Africans to practically engage with personal memories and the apartheid past. This report considers and evaluates two of the few such spaces: the Cape Town Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture and the Western Cape Branch of the Khulumani Support… Read More Christopher J. ColvinDecember 1, 2000
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsEvaluation of the Health Sector Hearing: Conceptualising Human Rights and ReconciliationAs part of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), various sectoral hearings were held to highlight the role of these sectors in South Africa's past. The health sector hearing was one such example and has been hailed as an important step in the process of promoting reconciliation, transforming health services in South Africa and promoting a human rights culture… Read More Hugo van der MerweDecember 1, 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
