#truth_and_reconciliation_commission

File Under: #Mahmood_Mamdani on #South_Africa’s much vaunted #Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission
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Because the (South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission) focused on perpetrators and overlooked the beneficiaries of mass violations of rights abuses – such as the pass laws and forced expulsions – it allowed the vast majority of white South Africans to go away thinking that they had little to do with these atrocities. Indeed, most did learn nothing new. The alternative would have been for the #TRC to show white South Africans that no matter what their political views – whether they were for, against or indifferent to apartheid – they were all its beneficiaries, whether it was a matter of the residential areas where they lived, the jobs they held, the schools they went to, the taxes they did or did not pay, or the cheap labour they (...)

#MEDIA #RW_Johnson

File Under : The #Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission
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Because the (South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission) focused on perpetrators and overlooked the beneficiaries of mass violations of rights abuses – such as the pass laws and forced expulsions – it allowed the vast majority of white South Africans to go away thinking that they had little to do with these atrocities. Indeed, most did learn nothing new. The alternative would have been for the #TRC to show white South Africans that no matter what their political views – whether they were for, against or indifferent to apartheid – they were all its beneficiaries, whether it was a matter of the residential areas where they lived, the jobs they held, the schools they went to, the taxes they did or did not pay, or the cheap labour they (...)

#MEDIA #Mahmood_Mamdani #RW_Johnson #South_Africa

100 Years of Land Dispossession in #South_Africa
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the #Natives_Land_Act, which ratified and legalized the exclusion of South Africa’s black majority from land ownership in favor of the white minority. The result was “just 7% of agricultural land set aside for blacks, though they comprised nearly 70% of the population.” Following changes to the act […]

#POLITICS #ANC #Ben_Cousins #land_reform #Landless_People’s_Movement #Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission #Zimbabwe