Reconciling South Africa or South Africans? Cautionary notes from the TRC

African Studies Quarterly

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-38

  Borer, Tristan Anne ^a  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

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