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A taste of power: the final, co-ordinated Spro-cas report
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ISBN: 0869750259 9780869750254 Year: 1973 Volume: 11 Publisher: Johannesburg

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South Africa without apartheid : dismantling racial domination
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ISBN: 0520057694 0520057708 9780520057708 9780520057692 Year: 1986 Volume: 39 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press

Capitalism and apartheid: South Africa, 1910-1986
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ISBN: 0704505177 9780704505179 Year: 1986 Publisher: Aldershot


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L'Afrique du sud en sursis
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ISBN: 2010041062 9782010041068 Year: 1977 Publisher: Paris : Hachette,

The politics of truth and reconciliation in South Africa : legitimizing the post-apartheid state
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ISBN: 0521802199 0521001943 1107122988 9786612486517 0511673671 0511674864 0511672888 0511670338 0511522290 1282486519 051167161X 9780521802192 9780521001946 9780511674860 9780511671616 9780511670336 9780511522291 9781107122987 9781282486515 6612486511 9780511673672 9780511672880 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid during the years 1960-1994. However, as Wilson shows, the TRC's restorative justice approach to healing the nation did not always serve the needs of communities at a local level. Based on extended anthropological fieldwork, this book illustrates the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. While a religious constituency largely embraced the commission's religious-redemptive language of reconciliation, Wilson argues that the TRC had little effect on popular ideas of justice as retribution. This provocative study deepens our understanding of post-apartheid South Africa and the use of human rights discourse. It ends on a call for more cautious and realistic expectations about what human rights institutions can achieve in democratizing countries.

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