Drawing from archives and lived experience, the international production probes the emotional and political complexities of reconciliation in a fractured world
The 80th anniversary of WWII is an opportune moment to reflect on the future of justice in South Africa
Successive ANC-led governments have been criticised by some for prioritising national reconciliation ahead of justice for victims
The violence, poverty, and oppression left deep psychological scars on future leaders, driving some to channel their trauma into a relentless pursuit of justice and equality
South Africa and Colombia attempted to deal with a violent past through telling truths about human rights violations – even if both processes faltered one some measures
The hardest part of reckoning is the reckoning and where the archbishop is resented it is not for the ways in which the TRC failed but those in which it succeeded and brought an…
‘The Arch’ never stopped joking as he fought oppression locally and globally, writes Thembisa Fakude.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and TRC chair hailed by President Cyril Ramaphosa as a ‘patriot without equal’
The reopened inquest into the death in detention of Dr Hoosen Haffejee in 1977 has heard that the “pliant” magistrate at the original inquest, Trevor Blunden, ignored evidence…
Author and academic Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela spoke to Nicolene de Wee about the government’s failure to heal a broken country
The NPA and the Hawks are allocating people and resources to investigate apartheid-era crimes that have gone unpunished, but not everyone is altogether happy about it.
The former Security Branch officer is asking the SCA for a permanent stay of appeal in the prosecution of the murder of Ahmed Timol in 1971
These 18 stories from members of MK’s Ashley Kriel detachment teach the meaning of sacrifice
An interview with Wilhelm Verwoerd raises a conundrum about how to grapple with our past
If South Africa is neither hopeful nor tragic, what posture should we take in relation to the future?
In a speech to graduates at Rhodes University, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela said that reviewing accepted wisdoms can help to repair the past
The NPA has denied that it played any role in delaying the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes, but concedes politicians interfered in its decisions
A truth and reconciliation commission has begun to investigate alleged rights abuses during the 22-year-long rule of Yahya Jammeh
Women remain the wallpaper of history and are daily denied a voice in our patriarchal society
Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed the architect of apartheid, was an enigmatic ‘revolutionary’ with a ‘deep social conscience’
