Establishing the truth about the apartheid past: Historians and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

African Studies Quarterly

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-95

  du Pisani, Jacobus A ^a   Kim, Kwang Su ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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