Author : Piet Meiring
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 162564714X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)
Book Synopsis Chronicle of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission by : Piet Meiring
Download or read book Chronicle of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission written by Piet Meiring and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two-and-a-half years South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was on everybody's lips. Newspapers and radio programs reported daily on the work of the Commission, and the faces of victims and offenders alike appeared on millions of television screens. In Chronicle of the Truth Commission, Pieter Meiring sheds light on the work of the Truth Commission: the stories and testimonies of victims, the applications for amnesty by offenders guilty of violating human rights, the necessary confrontations with the past, and the need for forgiveness and reconciliation. Meiring presents the course of the Truth Commission as a symbolic quest, an epic journey back into the past and onwards to the new future, a great trek that would leave not a single South African unaffected.