http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7318 2013-06-20T00:09:15Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7742 No easy road to truth: the TRC in the Eastern Cape Cherry, Janet Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: the TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 1999-07-11T09:17:14Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7560 Towards (re)conciliation: the post colonial economy of giving Ahluwalia, Pal This paper examines three different post-colonial sites where there is a need for reconciliation. The mode of analysis suggested here is based on the notion of post-colonialism. This is not a repudiation of the African past but an engagement with the manner in which Africa has dealt with institutions and practices that it has inherited. The three sites, Australia, Palestine and Rwanda, were examined through the lens of the notion of the uncanny. Although each of these locations is different, they nevertheless share the experience of colonisation. It is an experience which has divided all these societies. The effect on post-colonial subjects living in these societies is one of trauma. It is the uncanny which must be overcome if any genuine process of reconciliation is to take place. It is argued that this can be accomplished through the gift. A post-colonial economy of giving is necessary in order to break down categories and identities which have been ascribed or constructed in order to maintain power structures. A postcolonial economy of giving which is linked inextricably to organic intellectuals and a reconceptualised sense of citizenship is one that can further processes of (re)conciliation. Paper for presentation at the Wits History Workshop, June 1999, on truth, reconciliation and memory. Draft not to be cited without author's permission. 1999-06-25T10:27:30Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8119 "Local truths in Kathorus" Bonner, Phil; Nieftagodien, Noor Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 1999-06-14T11:42:34Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8110 Liberating the past from the future, liberating the future from the past: race and reconciliation in the United States and the new South Africa Williams, Dwayne E. Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 1999-06-14T11:40:43Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8109 The TRC: a project of public education Williams, Carin Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 1999-06-14T11:40:33Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8104 The cruelty of indifference: solitary confinement surfaces again Van Heerden, Judith Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 1999-06-14T11:39:02Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8102 History, memory and the ethics of writing: Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull Tobias, Saul Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 1999-06-14T11:38:31Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8099 Common past, divided truth: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South African public opinion Theissen, Gunnar Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 1999-06-14T11:37:41Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7626 Memory/ monstrosity/ representation Becker, Carol The war against the United States in Vietnam has moved from being a nightmare to a memory for the Vietnamese. In the U.S. there is still a division between those who thought the war justified and those who were against it. War memorials in both countries reflect these facts. Many veterans of the war were greatly damaged by it physically and mentally. Many go to Vietnam to help with its rebuilding. The government of the United States has not dealt adequately with it. The model of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission with its ideas of openness, forgiveness and restorative justice should help here and be a model for the World. Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 Version appears in her Surpassing the spectacle, 2002. 1999-06-11T13:49:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7812 Amnesty and justice in post apartheid South Africa: how not to construct a democratic normative framework Hendricks, Fred Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 1999-06-11T13:27:32Z