The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Reflections

Rethinking Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

“Meeting the Man who Organised a Bomb in My Car”

Part 2: Contributions

Jurisprudence after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission – ‘Welcoming Other Ways of Being’ and a ‘Jurisprudence of Sense’

Failure to Pursue Economic Reparations has, and Will Continue to Undermine Racial Reconciliation

Property in Transitional Times: The Glaring Absence of Property at the TRC

Performing and Resisting the Post-TRC ‘Trauma-Drama’: Survivor’s Narratives of Past and Present Violence in South Africa

The Moral Imperative of the TRC and the Question of Collective Guilt

What Did the TRC Teach South Africa about Democratic Citizenship?

Real Zones of Indistinction: Crisis, Exception, Norm – and the TRC as Biopolitical Imperative

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the Light of Ubuntu: A Comprehensive Appraisal

The Media Hearings of the TRC: Lessons to Be Learnt for Transitional Justice Processes

Putting the J into the TRC: Kenya’s Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission

Endnote

Index