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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)"”.
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Architects of our own destiny : profiling opportunities for reconciliation and restorative justice within the context of the Presidential Urban Renewal Programme in Mitchell's Plain
… on 02 February 2000, that Mitchell's Plain and Khayelitsha in the Western Cape would be the focus of the Presidential Urban Renewal Programme, Mitchell's Plain had been in existence for 25 years. By this time [2000], the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) had completed most of its …
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Sending up trauma : a study of political cartooning in South Africa's post-apartheid trauma discourse
… democracy. Especially during the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), as the commission invested heavily in the practice of traumatic storytelling as part the broader globalization of psychiatric knowledge about trauma (Colvin, 2008). Political cartoons shed an interesting …
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Narrating rape at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
… at the human rights violation hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ('TRC') in South Africa offer a nascent public record of women's experiences of rape under apartheid. This project is motivated by a desire to examine how these testimonies of rape were affected by explicit and …
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The Group Areas Act and Port Elizabeth's heritage: a study of memorial recollection in the South End Museum
… was marked by a significant reworking of memory and history in South Africa. WHilst the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was involved in its hearings on amnesty applications and gross human rights violations, new museums were emerging and older ones began reshaping their displays. This …
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Exploring the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report as a classroom resource
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) (1998) report is a five-volume record of the voices of many victims and perpetrators of apartheid giving evidence of their experiences and suffering. It is encoded in sophisticated and often complex English, largely inaccessible to its public South …
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Making amends : the psychological impact of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on victims of gross human rights violations
South Africa established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1995 to facilitate its nation building. The task of the Commission was to recover truth about the country's past human rights abuse and recommend a policy on reparations for the victims. This study evaluates the impact of the …
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Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… dissertation aims to put two seemingly stable and unchanging categories, namely the 'nation' and the 'body', into conversation with each other in order to interrogate how the disabled body, in particular, became a site for nation building in South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy …
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Running Solo: Indigenous Teacher Identity in Roman Catholic Education
… (CRT), Tribal Critical Race Theory (TribalCrit), and whiteness studies the inquiry set out to trouble the question; how does Indigenous teacher identity exist in Roman Catholic education? Following a hybrid methodology that allied critical ethnography and Indigenous methodology, three salient …
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Archives of apartheid-era economic crimes and legacies of socioeconomic violence: the truth and reconciliation commission, ‘Forgotten’ voices in the present and open secrets
… apartheid regime constructed a legacy of secrecy and economic corruption, which led to white-owned businesses and international players collaborating with the National Party. This alliance benefitted all stakeholders financially and helped sustain a “criminal economy,” which impoverished black …
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The Narrative of the ‘new' South Africa: Bearing Witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on its 20th Anniversary
… of democracy, 60 years of the Freedom Charter and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) saw its 20th anniversary. This has gone relatively unacknowledged, eclipsed by socio-political and economic turmoil. A struggling economy, rising inequality, unemployment, ‘xenophobia' and …
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Psychotherapy for sequelae of trauma based on testimonies of victims at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… the rule of Apartheid were exposed to torturous and traumatic experiences. The implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was all attempt to uncover these traumas and to begin the process of redressing and making reparation for gross human rights violations of the past. The …
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A critical-theoretic study of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission : with reference to the work of Jurgen Habermas
… different bodies of work illuminate the problems and prospects for sustained democratic development in a country that has been affected by the impact of a series of cumulative civilizing offensives.I argue that the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) must be judged in relation …
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A Call to Action: How the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has influenced policing policy and practice in Ontario.
… current socio-economic marginality, colonialism, and intergenerational trauma that perpetuates systemic racism, overrepresentation within the criminal justice system, and a paradox of over and under-policing. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) detailed the roles of colonialism and …
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Collective Woundedness: Exploring intergenerational trauma and healing in Barbara Boswell’s Grace, Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning and Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain
… in recognising the importance of healing and coming to terms with the country’s violent past. This was done through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and entailed victims detailing their traumatic experiences. It was an opportunity for the country and indeed the world, to bear …
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A Missed Opportunity: The Rhetoric of Social Cohesion in Parliamentary Debates - 1994 – 2014
… foreign nationals, specifically from the African and Indian sub-continent, who had migrated to the country in search of better prospects. Based on the country's history of racial discrimination and oppression, the thesis explores whether leaders were conscious of the need to build a South African …
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Building peace and democracy in South Africa : an assessment of the "peace process" in relation to the "truth process" (1991-1998)
… South Africa's the National Peace Accord (NPA) and the "truth process" that followed from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) during the country's transition to democracy. The study narrows down these two highly complex processes so that they can be studied in relation to each other. …
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The political instrumentalization of religion in the South African truth and reconciliation commission
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been subject to numerous debates across a wide range of disciplines, including peace and conflict studies, justice and transformation studies, as well as religious studies. In political science, the debates concerning the TRC have …
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A new beginning: a case for establishing a sexual and gender-based violence truth commission in South Africa
Globally, civil society and the media have drawn increasing attention to alarmingly high sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and femicide rates. This is particularly true for South Africa, having hosted two presidential summits on the topic, having produced a national action plan (NAP) …
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Imagined communities, divided realities : engaging the apartheid past through 'healing of memories' in a post-TRC South Africa
… domains. The dissertation examines the process and effects of the Healing of Memories (HOM) project in Cape Town. HOM is a civil society initiative established in 1996 to facilitate storytelling workshops between South Africans, previously divided on the basis of race and class. Critiquing …
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Memoryscape : Reconciling Everyday City Dwellers’ Memory with Pretoria’s Heritage Narrative
… social, political, or historical contexts and, as a result, are not freely utilized by all the communities they currently claim to serve. Museums tend to be destinations that are placed outside the everyday conditions and lives of the citizens and, as a result, are on a trajectory to become …
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