Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver?
As nations throughout the world emerge from periods of human rights abuses, systematic oppression, and collective violence, truth commissions have become indispensable to political transition. Such commissions are established as temporary bodies to investigate human rights violations and patterns of violence that occurred over a specified period of time. Their goal is to document conflict—to recover the truth—as a first step toward healing.\ Of the truth commissions to date, the South African...
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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa provides a comprehensive evaluation of the TRC process and its impact on South African society. Based on a six-year study, the volume draws on an analysis of the victim hearings, amnesty hearings, institutional hearings, public opinion survey data, and extensive interviews.
Preface Audrey R. Chapman Hugo van der Merwe viiIntroduction: Assessing the South African Transitional Justice Model Audrey R. Chapman Hugo van der Merwe 1The Victim HearingsWhat Survivors Say About Justice: An Analysis of the TRC Victim Hearings Hugo van der Merwe 23The TRC's Approach to Promoting Reconciliation in the Human Rights Violations Hearings Audrey R. Chapman 45Perspectives on the Role of Forgiveness in the Human Rights Violations Hearings Audrey R. Chapman 66Amnesty HearingsAn Evaluation of the South African Amnesty Process Jeremy Sarkin 93The Impact of the TRC's Amnesty Process on Survivors of Human Rights Violations Timothy Sizwe Phakathi Hugo van der Merwe 116Truth FindingsLevels of Truth: Macro-Truth and the TRC Audrey R. Chapman Patrick Ball 143Truth Recovery Through the TRC's Institutional Hearings Process Audrey R. Chapman 169Responses to the TRCObject of Trust and Hatred: Public Attitudes Toward the TRC Gunnar Theissen 191Reaping What You Sow: Political Parties, the TRC, and the Quest for Truth and Reconciliation Piers Pigou 217ConclusionDid theTRC Deliver? Hugo van der Merwe Audrey R. Chapman 241Reflections on the South African Experience Audrey R. Chapman Hugo van der Merwe 280Notes 301List of Contributors 337Index 339
