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...redress." - By Margot Roosevelt Paying for Apartheid SOUTH AFRICA Forty years of oppression aren't easily washed away. But last week South Africa may have missed a chance to come a bit cleaner on the legacy of apartheid. The final phase of the government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), set up seven years ago to report on human-rights abuses during the apartheid era, didn't satisfy all those claiming compensation for their suffering. President Thabo Mbeki made it clear that there would be no blanket amnesty for apartheid crimes, but he announced a one-time cash payment, amounting...
...rebels paved the way for the deployment of 16,000 U.N. peacekeepers in the country. With elections in May that were for the most part judged free and fair, the establishment of a war-crimes tribunal and the inauguration last month of a seven-member Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Sierra Leone seems at last to have emerged from its decade-long descent into devastation. The withdrawal late last month of most of the British forces in Sierra Leone - a core group of some 100 officers will remain to help train local soldiers - signaled the former colonial power's confidence...
...troubled history. On the one hand, it is a phase characterized by criminal brutality on the part of former victims of apartheid, and on the other hand, by the public admissions of guilt by the perpetrators of apartheid crimes in the forum of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC...
...told through David Lurie, a divorced, passionless professor of English Literature whose seduction of one of his colored students precipitates a train of events that leads to him losing his job, his reputation and his lifestyle in Cape Town. Although Coetzee does not overtly mention the proceedings of the TRC, he alludes to them through Luries appearance before a university disciplinary committee. While Lurie is prepared to admit his guilt in abusing his position of authority by coercing the young student into a sexual relationship with him, that is as far as he will go. He refuses to make...
After the lecture, Gobodo-Madikizela fended offquestions about the effectiveness of the TRC. Thecommittee was the product of a compromise betweenofficials who advocated the criminal courts andthose who believed the justice system was tooinfluenced by apartheid...