The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on

Mia Swart is professor of International Law at the University of Johannesburg where she teaches the LLM course in international law. She focuses her research on the fields of transitional justice, international criminal law, and comparative constitutional law. Karin van Marle is professor of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria where she teaches Jurisprudence and related modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research falls within the broad field of legal theory, legal philosophy and jurisprudence.

List of Contributors
Introduction

Part 1: Reflections
Rethinking Reconciliation and Forgiveness at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
 Antjie Krog

“Meeting the Man who Organised a Bomb in My Car”
 Albie Sachs

Part 2: Contributions
Jurisprudence after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission – ‘Welcoming Other Ways of Being’ and a ‘Jurisprudence of Sense’
 Karin van Marle

Failure to Pursue Economic Reparations has, and Will Continue to Undermine Racial Reconciliation
 William Gumede

Property in Transitional Times: The Glaring Absence of Property at the trc
 Elmien du Plessis

Performing and Resisting the Post-trc ‘trauma-drama’: Survivor’s Narratives of Past and Present Violence in South Africa
 Kim Wale

The Moral Imperative of the trc and the Question of Collective Guilt
 Mia Swart

What Did the trc Teach South Africa about Democratic Citizenship?
 Hugo van der Merwe

Real Zones of Indistinction: Crisis, Exception, Norm – and the trc as Biopolitical Imperative
 Jaco Barnard-Naudé

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the Light of Ubuntu: A Comprehensive Appraisal
 Thaddeus Metz

The Media Hearings of the trc: Lessons to Be Learnt for Transitional Justice Processes
 Ylva Rodny-Gumede

Putting the J into the trc: Kenya’s Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission
 Ronald C. Slye

Endnote
 Karin van Marle

Index