Victims' Perspectives about the Human Rights Violations Hearings

While outside of South Africa the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was widely perceived as a model process for dealing with a legacy of violence and human rights violations, within the country substantial criticism has been voiced as to how "just" the TRC really was and on which level shortcomings and failures - either of a fundamental nature, rooted in the concept of the TRC, or as an artefact of how an "initially good idea" was carried out - may be located.

Key wordsapartheid / community reconstruction / reconciliation / reconstruction / rehabilitation

CountriesSouth Africa

CategoryPublication