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    Apartheid: ancient, past and present
    (1999-06-11T11:14:30Z) Bathish, Nisreen; Löwstedt, Anthony, 1961-
    South Africa's National Party, which ruled the country from 1948 until 1994, itself coined the term apartheid to veil or mask the oppressive elements of its policies and practices. The concept of separateness in itself does not imply any group being favored over any other Segregation per se of ethnic entities, after all, was supported by some South African Blacks. Now in common usage all over the world, apartheid has drifted away from its original lexical meaning to denote physically repressive, economically exploitative and ideologically racist or ethnicist segregation. This paper focuses on three apartheid societies, Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa and Israel, and offers conceptual reflections on possible frameworks for future Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, especially with regard to present day Israel.
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    The politics of memory and forgetting after Auschwitz and apartheid
    (1999-06-11T10:15:02Z) Duvenage, Pieter
    This article focuses on the politics of memory and forgetting after Auschwitz and apartheid. In the first two sections Habermas's critical contribution to the German Historikerstreit is discussed. Important in this regard is the moral dimension of our relation to the past. In the next two sections the emphasis shifts to South Africa and more specifically the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The article ends with a general discussion of the dilemma of historical "truth" and representation in contemporary societies.
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    The New Brighton Advisory Board, c. 1923-1952: its legitimacy and legacy.
    (1990-02-06T07:02:27Z) Baines, Gary F., 1955-
    The historical significance of advisory boards has been downplayed because of their contradictory role in urban African politics. Until the 1940s, the system of Advisory Boards was dominated by the 'most reactionary elements' of the African petty bourgeoisie. This paper contends that, despite the purely consultative functions of the Boards, participation in Advisory Board politics was an important channel of mobilisation in urban African communities until at least the Second World War. Thereafter their legitimacy of was questioned. This paper also studies the New Brighton Advisory Board with particular reference to the question of the Board's legitimacy and its relationship with the local authority in the period between 1923 and 1952. It also evaluates the Board as a locus of activity concerned with wider socio-political issues.
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    Reconciliation and revenge in post-apartheid South Africa: rethinking legal pluralism and human rights
    (1987-02-09T09:40:21Z) Wilson, Richard
    Human rights are a central element in the new governmental project in the 'New South Africa', and this article traces some of the specific forms of connection and disconnection between notions of justice found in townships of the Vaal and rights discourses as articulated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Human rights in post-apartheid South Africa have had varied social effects which are understood through the categories of'adductive affinities' and 'relational discontinuities'. Religious values and human rights discourse have converged on the notion of'reconciliation' on the basis of shared value orientations and institutional structures. There are clear divergences, however, between human rights and notions of justice as expressed in local lekgotla, or township courts, which emphasized punishment and revenge. The article concludes that the plurality of legal orders in South Africa results not from systemic relations between 'law' and 'society'. Instead, pluralism emerges from multiple forms of social action seeking to alter the direction of social change in the area of justice, within the context of the nation-building project of the post-apartheid state.