The Effects of Reparations on Reconciliation and the Ends of Justice: the South African case

dc.contributor.authorNhlapo, Tokelo Julius
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-07T12:18:13Z
dc.date.available2020-09-07T12:18:13Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionResearch report submitted in partial fulfilment of requirements of Master of Arts in Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg February 2019en_ZA
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa’s first multiracial and democratic elections in 1994 succeeded nearly half a century of institutionalised racial discrimination and oppression under apartheid which left hundreds of thousands disadvantaged. As a consequence of a political settlement between the negotiating parties, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established through an Act of Parliament to uncover the causes, nature and extent of gross violations of human rights in and outside the country. In an effort to balance the moral predicament of affording amnesty to perpetrators, the TRC also recommended reparations for victims of gross violations of human rights. This report argues that the overreliance on judicial means, to resolve political questions of marginalisation and repression was inadequate. Consequently, the TRC’s recommendation for reparations determined by a legal imagination therefore aimed at only direct victims of the consequences of the crime of apartheid to the exclusion of many. Using first-hand experience of participants as well as secondary material, the report concludes that the TRC reparations recommendations’ failure to deal with the interconnectedness of apartheid violations, manifests in South Africa’s increasing racial hostilities, racialised poverty and inequality 25 years into democracy. Because poverty and inequality disproportionately affects previously marginalised groups, as well as government’s failure to provide adequate reparations that meaningfully restore victims sense of dignity and moral worth, perceptions of reconciliation and justice are significantly undermined.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianXN2020en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (93 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationNhlapo, Tokelo Julius (2019) The Effects of Reparations on Reconciliation and the Ends of Justice:|bthe South African case, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/29529>
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/29529
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Social Sciencesen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshRestorative justice--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshTruth commissions--South Africa
dc.subject.lcshPost-apartheid era--South Africa
dc.titleThe Effects of Reparations on Reconciliation and the Ends of Justice: the South African caseen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
MA Corrected 16 .pdf
Size:
948.51 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Main work

License bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:

Collections