Reconciliation Through Truth
Reckoning of Apartheid's Criminal Governance
Published on 15. January 1998
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-85255-803-4 (ISBN)
Description
While depicting the horrors of apartheid, this volume also proposes a constructive process designed to enable a free South Africa to avoid lapsing into a cycle of new oppressiveness. The authors seeks to demonstrate a challenge that they believe can and must be met by the forthcoming efforts of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-803-4 (9780852558034)
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Content
Why face the past? achieving justice through truth; acknowledging the illegitimacy of apartheid; stark opposites - apartheid and the resistance to it; achieving genuine reconciliation; the need to decriminalise the resistance; acknowledging the need for corrective action; confronting the roots of violence; acknowledging the humanity of the resistance; the morality of armed resistance; establishing equality before the law; placing property on a legitimate footing; facing up to collective responsibility; apartheid and its neighbours; apartheid and the international community; finding one South Africa.