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from: Zed Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.20968
EAN: 9781856498203
ISBN: 1856498204
Label: Zed Books
Manufacturer: Zed Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 05, 2000
Publisher: Zed Books
Sales Rank: 1133014
Studio: Zed Books
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu is widely recognized as a defining experience in South Africa's transition to democratic and non-racial rule. This anthology, uniquely combining contributions by some of the Commissioners and their staff, those who bore witness, and scholars, reviews the context in which the TRC did its work.
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Rating: - Another loss for democracy in South Africa.
The aim of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission (TRC) was supposedly to reveal the atrocities committed by the apartheid government in the period 1948-1994. However according to a South African advocate, dr. Anthea Jeffreys, 99% of all the hearings did not comply to the necessary criteria to qualify as legally valid. No oaths were taken, cross examinations were highly superficial, evidence was seldom produced, and as much as 16 500 of the hearings were based on heresay and not on personally experienced ... Read More
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