Constructing a report: Writing up the "truth"

Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 279-294

  Villa Vicencio, Charles ^a   Verwoerd, Wilhelm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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References (44)

1. See the distinctions between "factual or forensic truth," "personal and narrative truth," "social truth," and "healing and restorative truth," in TRC, Final Report (Cape Town, 1998), I, chap. 5, 110-114.
2. Republic of South Africa, Debates of the National Assembly (Hansard), First Session, Second Parliament, 1099-1100.
3. This section, like the rest of the preamble to the Act, is based on the influential "postamble" of the Interim Constitution, Act 200 of 1993.
4. See Final Report, V, chap. 8, 343-345.
5. AZAPO and Others v. the President of the RSA and Others, 1996 (8) BCLR 1015 (CC) at paragraph 21.
6. See Final Report, I, chap. 5, 103-135.
7. On the legislative and historical origins of the TRC, see Final Report, I, chap. 4.
8. See Final Report, V, chap. 1, 24-25.
9. See Minority Position submitted by Commissioner Wynand Malan, Final Report, V, 436-456.
10. See Final Report, I, chap. 4, 54-55; chap. 5, 104-105.
11. John Thompson, Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication (Stanford, 1990).
12. See also Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, "The Moral Foundation of Truth Commissions," in this book; "Media and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission," special edition of Rhodes Journalism Review (Grahams town, 1997);
13. Wilhelm J. Verwoerd, "Continuing the Discussion: Reflections from within the TRC," Current Writing VIII (1996): 66-85.
14. "Truth Trickle Becomes a Flood," Mail & Guardian, 1-7, November 1996, 14.
15. See also Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull (Johannesburg, 1998), 36-37.
16. "Kommissie van Wraak" (Commission of Revenge), Die Burger, 26 September 1996, 18;
17. "Waarheid enWraak" (Truth and Revenge), Die Burger, 1 October 1996, 10;
18. "Die Nuwe Slagoffers" (The New Victims), Rapport, 27 October 1996.
19. See also Willie P. Esterhuyse, "Cartoons and the Afrikaner community," in Wilhelm J. Verwoerd and Mahlubi Mabizela (eds.), Truths Drawn in Jest: Commentary on the TRC through Cartoons (Cape Town, 2000).
20. See transcript of TRC Special Hearing on Compulsory Military Service in Cape Town, 23 July 1997; Final Report, IV, chap. 8.
21. See Final Report, I, chap. 4, 90-92.
22. Section 30 of the Act required the TRC to send a notice to those that it intended to name and to allow them an opportunity to respond.
23. See Final Report, V, chap. 6, 225-226.
24. See Louis Blom-Cooper, "Public Inquiries," Current Legal Problems (1993): 204-220;
25. Jeremy Sarkin, "The Trials and Tribulations of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission," South African Journal of Human Rights XII (1996): 617-640;
26. R. Scott, "Procedures at Inquiries-the Duty to be Fair," Law Quarterly Review CXI (1995): 596-616;
27. Sanford Levinson, "Trials, Commissions, and Investigating Committees," in this book.
28. See the "Findings and Conclusions" of the TRC, Final Report, V, chap. 6, 196-258.
29. See Final Report, I, chap. 4, 65-78.
30. See Final Report, V, chap. 6. A notable exception is Anthea Jeffery's The Truth about the Truth Commission (Johannesburg, 1999).
31. From Lord Acton's Inaugural Lecture, quoted by Brian Tierney, "Religious Rights: An Historical Perspective," in John Witte and Johan van der Vyver (eds.), Religious Rights in Global Perspective (The Hague, 1996), 33.
32. Section 3(1), the Act.
33. This task is explicitly addressed in Final Report, V, chap. 7, 259-303.
34. Albert Camus, Neither Victims nor Executioners (Chicago, 1972).
35. See also Aronson's notion of a "spiral of responsibility" underlying large-scale human rights violations by modern states.
36. Ronald Aronson, "Responsibility and Complicity," Philosophical Papers XIX (1990): 62.
37. Section 3(1)(a), Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, no. 34, 1995.
38. See Final Report, II, chap. 6, 537-548.
39. Mahmood Mamdani, "Reconciliation without Justice," Southern African Review of Books (November/December 1996): 3-5.
40. See Final Report, I, chap. 2, 24-43; chap. 4, 58-65, 78-86.
41. André du Toit, "Philosophical Perspectives on the Truth Commission. Some Preliminary Notes & Fragments," Comment (Rhodes University, Grahamstown) XX (Summer 1996): 2-14.
42. Michael Ignatieff, "Articles of Faith," Index on Censorship V (1996): 113.
43. William S. Merwin, The Miner's Pale Children (New York, 1970), 85-88.
44. Submission to the TRC health sector hearing (Cape Town, 18 June 1997) by Michael Simpson, a psychiatrist specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder.