Forgiveness, reconciliation, and politics: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) revisited

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dc.contributor.advisorLaubscher, Martin
dc.contributor.authorMohoang, Khwezilokusa Earl
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-24T06:18:49Z
dc.date.available2017-07-24T06:18:49Z
dc.date.issued2017-01
dc.description.abstractThis study on forgiveness, reconciliation, and politics aims to revisit the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in order to understand how it dealt with and comprehended the concepts of forgiveness and reconciliation. This is in an effort to understand why South Africa still faces social issues of expanding poverty, violence, crime, low human capital, and human rights violations. It examines the recommendations the Commission had given, and what is to be made of them today. Using a hermeneutical approach as a methodological tool, the study briefly reflects on the history of oppression in South Africa, the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, the tensions of the 1980s and the early 1990s, and the establishment of the TRC. This reflection helps to understand the context in which the Commission found itself, as well as to better understand the thought processes captured in the various criticisms against and interpretations of the TRC. The study then reflects on the reports given by the Commission in order to look through the Commission’s eyes. Lastly, the study examines the recommendations made by the Commission, and with consideration of transformation as a change strategy, looks at what still needs to be done to continue the reconciliatory process.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/6504
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectForgivenessen_ZA
dc.subjectReconciliationen_ZA
dc.subjectPoliticsen_ZA
dc.subjectTruth and Reconciliation Commissionen_ZA
dc.subjectTRCen_ZA
dc.subjectGovernmenten_ZA
dc.subjectApartheiden_ZA
dc.subjectRecommendationsen_ZA
dc.subjectTRC final reporten_ZA
dc.subjectPromotions Acten_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectHermeneuticsen_ZA
dc.subjectTransformationen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africa, Truth and Reconciliation Commissionen_ZA
dc.subjectTruth commissions -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertation (MGT (Governance and Political Transformation))--University of the Free State, 2017en_ZA
dc.titleForgiveness, reconciliation, and politics: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) revisiteden_ZA
dc.typeDissertationen_ZA
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