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Item T.E. Donges and the Group Areas Act(1992-06-01) James, Wilmot G.In 1950 the minister of the interior T. E. (Eben) Donges, introduced group areas legislation in the house of assembly of parliament. The intention of the legislation, he told its white members, was to "make provision for the establishment of ... separate areas for the different racial groups, by compulsion if necessary.' ‘Separate areas’ referred to residential neighbourhoods and business districts. ‘Racial groups’ were defined by the population registration act passed also during 1950 as comprising three populations: white, coloured and African. As such, group areas were the geographical and spatial expression of apartheid (or as Donges preferred, "separate development with a vertical colour bar') seeking to draw rigid boundaries between the three main racial groupings the apartheid-minded fraternity desired to see emerge.Item 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.Item The politics of memory and forgetting after Auschwitz and apartheid(1999-06-11T10:15:02Z) Duvenage, PieterThis 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.Item Improving human rights through constitutionalism and socio-economic reforms in Ethiopia(1999-02-12T08:55:20Z) Abraham, KinfeIn this paper we will examine the atrocities committed by the Derg, the attempts made by EPRDF to bring to justice those government officials who were responsible for human rights violations, and the legislative reforms which have led to era of Constitutionalism.