"A register of reconciliation was also established so that ordinary South Africans who wished to express regret for past failures could also express their remorse. The TRC had a number of high-profile members, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu (chairman), Alex Boraine (deputy chairman), Sisi Khampepe, Wynand Malan, and Emma Mashinini. The work of the TRC was accomplished through three committees: Public hearings of the Human Rights Violations Committee and the Amnesty Committee were held at many venues around South Africa, including Cape Town (at the University of the Western Cape), Johannesburg (at the Central Methodist Mission), and Randburg (at the Rhema"
"into the interviews, as she was afraid he would be truly evil as people depicted him to be. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa began in 1995 after the fall of Apartheid. The premise was to have the full truth about politically charged crimes committed during Apartheid be told, but to then grant most of the criminal amnesty if they did tell the truth. Those leading the TRC were, Desmond Tutu, chair, and Alex Boraine, deputy chair. The TRC had 22,000 statements from victims, 7,000 amnesty applications, 2,500 amnesty hearings, and 1,500 amnesties were granted. Pretoria Central"
"Brian Currin Brian Currin (born 20 September 1950) is a South African lawyer who was instrumental in the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Currin practiced law in Pretoria from 1977-87, specializing in labour law and civil and human rights, and now works in mediation and institutional transformation. In 1994 he was appointed by South African President Nelson Mandela to chair a Prison Audit Committee and was subsequently involved in the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 1987 he founded the National Directorate of Lawyers for Human Rights which he headed for eight years. He has worked"
"deal with ""the interlocking dynamics of forgiveness, repentance, truth, and justice."" One of the initial political acts in post-apartheid South Africa was the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), in order to establish and facilitate truth and reconciliation while acknowledging crimes committed and human rights violations during the apartheid era (1960–1994). It came as an outcome of negotiations between the contrasting political parties of Nelson Mandela (ANC) and F. W. de Klerk (NP). As for its goal, De Gruchy explains, ""TRC did contribute to that goal in becoming a catalyst for the healing of the past and enabling"
"was not relevant in establishing a non-racial South African society. The two men founded IDASA, which organized the 1987 Dakar Conference with ANC leaders in Dakar, Senegal. From 1986 to 1995, Boraine headed two South African nonprofit organizations concerned with ending apartheid and addressing the legacy it left behind. Boraine was one of the main architects of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). He was involved in drafting the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No. 34 of 1995. In 1995, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to be its deputy chair of the TRC serving under"
"of language and thought that structure memory and mourning. ""Ubu and the Truth Commission"" uses these circumstances as a starting point. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in 1996 with what Taylor described as a ""momentous mandate"", to solicit testimony from those who considered themselves casualties, perpetrators or survivors of the apartheid atrocity. Coming almost exactly two years after South Africa's first democratic elections, the Commission's purposes, in Taylor's eyes, were ""to retrieve lost histories, to make reparation to those who had suffered, to provide amnesty for acts which were demonstrably political in purpose [... and, among the most"
"report. On 19 August 1998, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), stated that recently uncovered letters had implicated the British MI5, the American CIA, and then South African intelligence services in the crash. One TRC letter said that a bomb in the aircraft's wheel bay was set to detonate when the wheels came down for a landing. Tutu said that they were unable to investigate the truth of the letters or the allegations that South Africa or Western intelligence agencies played a role in the crash. The British Foreign Office suggested that they may"
"Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) is a truth commission in The Gambia to investigate the Yahya Jammeh era from 1994 to 2017. The process from the announcement of the commission to its launch lasted from 20 July 2017 to 15 October 2018. Its executive secretary is Baba Galleh Jallow, its prosecutor is Essa M. Faal, and the chairperson of the 11-strong commission is Lamin J. Sise. The process for founding the TRRC was led by the Attorney General, Ba Tambadou. At a press conference on 20 July 2017, Tambadou announced that a draft"
"women's affairs. This is the list of designated commissioners released to the media in August 2018, they are not yet confirmed. Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) is a truth commission in The Gambia to investigate the Yahya Jammeh era from 1994 to 2017. The process from the announcement of the commission to its launch lasted from 20 July 2017 to 15 October 2018. Its executive secretary is Baba Galleh Jallow, its prosecutor is Essa M. Faal, and the chairperson of the 11-strong commission is Lamin J. Sise. The process for founding the TRRC"
"Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Liberia) The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a Parliament-enacted organization created in May 2005 under the Transitional Government. The Commission worked throughout the first mandate of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf after her election as President of Liberia in November 2005. The Liberian TRC came to a conclusion in 2010, filing a final report and recommending relevant actions by national authorities to ensure responsibility and reparations. The Liberian TRC has garnered much criticism for its inability to address Charles Taylor and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted Charles Taylor, the leader of"
"future parole or amnesty. At his trial Janusz Waluś never testified. Wife Gaye Derby-Lewis was also tried by the Supreme Court in Johannesburg however was acquitted despite her involvement within the Conservative Party until 1989. Nelson Mandela established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in December 1995 to enable the exposure of all political crimes during the apartheid in attempt to assist South Africa’s transition to democracy. In 1997 Waluś and Derby-Lewis applied for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the grounds that their actions were political in nature, and that the assassination was as result of orders from"
"refused to testify at the new government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), for exposing apartheid-era crimes, which was chaired by his cultural and political nemesis, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The TRC found that he had ordered the 1988 bombing of the South African Council of Churches headquarters in Johannesburg. In August 1998, he was fined and given a suspended jail sentence for his refusal to testify in relation to the human rights violations and violence sanctioned by the State Security Council (SSC) which he, as president until 1989, had directed. In June 1999, Botha successfully appealed to the High Court against"
"-'For holding the community together in mourning, conflict and celebration.' 2005: Brigalia Bam - 'For her role in enabling peaceful democratic elections' 2004: Mary Burton - 'For her work in the Black Sash and elsewhere' 2003: Dullah and Farieda Omar - 'For their contribution to the TRC process' 2002: PJ Powers and Sibongile Khumalo - 'For singing one another's songs' 2001: Pieter Dirk Uys - 'For enabling us to laugh at ourselves' 2000: Tim Modise - 'For getting the nation talking' Reconciliation Award The South African Institute for Justice and Reconciliation gives an annual Reconciliation Award to an individual, community"
"On April 27, 2011, Ouattara promised to create a commission following the model of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and announced former Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny as the commission’s leader . The commission was charged to, “elaborate a typology of human rights violations,” “establish truth and situate responsibility for past and present sociopolitical events,” “listen to victims and obtain the recognition of facts by perpetrators” and “identify and make recommendations toward the fight against injustice, inequalities of all kind, tribalism, nepotism, the exclusion, as well as hatred in all of their forms.” Notably missing was the commission’s lack"
"Africa during the transition period. He regarded it as ""a vitally important safety valve"" that provided a ""credible public instrument"" to deal with incidents that might otherwise have derailed the negotiations. The international community took a similar view; his work was supported and funded by the UN, the Commonwealth and the European Community, who regarded it as vital to expose the truth behind political violence in order to achieve democratic stability. Goldstone's work was to pave the way for the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995, a body that he strongly supported. Its chairman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu,"
"A Brief Introduction. 8. Cody Corliss, Truth Commissions and the Limits of Restorative Justice: Lessons Learned in South Africa’s Cradock Four Case, 21 Mich. St. Int'l L. Rev. 273 (2013), Available at: <nowiki>https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/ilr/vol21/iss2/6</nowiki> Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Côte d'Ivoire) The Commission Dialogue, vérité et reconciliation (CDVR) (English: Dialogue, Truth, and Reconciliation Commission) was sworn in by President Alassane Ouattara September 28, 2012 in response to the post-election violence of the 2010-2011 Ivorian Crisis. The 11-member Commission, led by former Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, consisted of religious leaders, regional representatives and Ivorian Chelsea soccer player Didier Drogba. The Commission was"
"would eventually evolve into the Heads of Combined Services (HOCS) and in 1995 become the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee (NICOC). In a 1998 report on the former South African government and its security forces, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) castigated South Africa's last hard-line apartheid president P.W. Botha and held him responsible for gross human rights violations, including all violence sanctioned by the State Security Council. The report said: By virtue of his position as head of state and chairperson of the State Security Council (SSC), Botha contributed to and facilitated a climate in which ... gross violations of"
"garnering much international criticism. Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Liberia) The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a Parliament-enacted organization created in May 2005 under the Transitional Government. The Commission worked throughout the first mandate of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf after her election as President of Liberia in November 2005. The Liberian TRC came to a conclusion in 2010, filing a final report and recommending relevant actions by national authorities to ensure responsibility and reparations. The Liberian TRC has garnered much criticism for its inability to address Charles Taylor and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted Charles"
"the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) – the sole cabinet minister to have admitted committing crimes, including the bombing of the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches at Khotso House, and the COSATU trade union headquarters. In mid-2006, Vlok came forward with public apologies for a number of acts that he had not disclosed to the TRC, and for which he could therefore be prosecuted. In a dramatic gesture, he washed the feet of Frank Chikane who, as secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches, had been targeted by Vlok for assassination. Subsequently, he washed the feet"
"ANC lawyer Kader Asmal, he advocated for and advised upon a broadening of socio-economic rights in the new South African constitution. It was through this work with Kader Asmal that he became involved with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Asmal, Roberts and Louise Asmal later collected their thoughts in one of the first scholarly discussions of Truth and Reconciliation, entitled ""Reconciliation through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid’s Criminal Governance"", a book for which Nelson Mandela wrote the preface. Mandela's Deputy and successor as President, Thabo Mbeki, spoke at the launch of the book in Cape Town. Roberts then served the"
"raised these issues privately rather than publicly. A key question facing the post-apartheid government was how they would respond to the various human rights abuses that had been committed over the previous decades by both the state and by anti-apartheid activists. The National Party had wanted a comprehensive amnesty package whereas the ANC wanted trials of former state figures. Alex Boraine helped Mandela's government to draw up legislation for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which was passed by parliament in July 1995. Nuttall suggested that Tutu become one of the TRC's seventeen commissioners, while in September"
"Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa) The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa after the end of apartheid. Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experiences, and some were selected for public hearings. Perpetrators of violence could also give testimony and request amnesty from both civil and criminal prosecution. The TRC, the first of the 1003 held internationally to stage public hearings, was seen by many as a crucial component of the transition to full and free democracy in South"
"conflicts. Lamin J. Sise, a close confidante of the late UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, was announced to replace him. The commission was launched at Dunes Resort Hotel, Kotu Beach, Kololi, on 15 October. It was launched by President Adama Barrow and attended by senior figures including Mariam Jack-Denton, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Hassan Bubacar Jallow, the Chief Justice, and members of the diplomatic corps, the National Assembly, civil society, and international organisations. Barrow noted that the TRRC would be independent, and was the sixth truth commission launched in Africa in its history. Other speakers included Ba Tambadou, the"
"the goal of capturing the overwhelming moral, emotional, and historical complexity of the Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa. In 2004, the book was adapted into the film ""In My Country"" by director John Boorman starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. Country of My Skull Country of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog primarily about the findings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The book is, in reality, an intersectional, interdisciplinary analysis of the Commission's potential and realized effects on post-Apartheid South Africa. The book can be understood as having three"
"Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Korea) South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (), established on December 1, 2005, is a governmental body responsible for investigating incidents in Korean history which occurred from Japan's rule of Korea in 1910 through the end of authoritarian rule in Korea with the election of President Kim Young-sam in 1993. The body has investigated numerous atrocities committed by various government agencies during Japan's occupation of Korea, the Korean War, and the authoritarian governments that ruled afterwards. The commission estimates that tens of thousands of people were executed in the summer of 1950. The victims include"
"Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Côte d'Ivoire) The Commission Dialogue, vérité et reconciliation (CDVR) (English: Dialogue, Truth, and Reconciliation Commission) was sworn in by President Alassane Ouattara September 28, 2012 in response to the post-election violence of the 2010-2011 Ivorian Crisis. The 11-member Commission, led by former Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, consisted of religious leaders, regional representatives and Ivorian Chelsea soccer player Didier Drogba. The Commission was modeled on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and given two years to complete its mandate to investigate past human rights violations and provide recommendations on how to prevent future abuses and"
"countries – including a short while in London. While there, he joined the African National Congress (ANC) and expressed his support for Nelson Mandela. Coetzee was minded by the future president Jacob Zuma. He returned to South Africa in 1993. He was among the first to apply for amnesty with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) when it was created and was granted amnesty on 4 August 1997. He later fell out of grace with the ANC. Coetzee was employed by EduSolutions, which supplied textbooks on behalf of the government to Limpopo province. In July 2012, he told the media"
"and social justice on South Africa’s and Africa’s agenda. Evidence shows clear links between economic growth, development, peace and reconciliation, especially where societies resolve conflict and democratise. The Institute annually recognises the contributions of others to the field of justice and reconciliation through the IJR Reconciliation Award, with past winners including Brigalia Bam, Pieter-Dirk Uys and Albie Sachs. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is the Institute’s longstanding patron. Its eminent Board of Directors includes Professor Brian O’Connel, Justice Richard Goldstone, Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, Dr Louise Asmal and Dr Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. Dr Fanie du Toit, who has been with the IJR since"
"and Reconciliation Commission) was inaugurated in Yamoussoukro. It is an 11-member commission headed by former Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny. The commission includes religious leaders, regional representatives, and Chelsea footballer Didier Drogba to speak for Ivorians living abroad. It is modelled after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa. However, Konan Banny expressed that the commission would not have amnesty powers nor powers to absolve anyone. A legislative election was announced in September and held on 11 December. It was the first legislative election since 2000, due to the crisis in 2002. Ouattara hoped that new legislators could be"
"into an area, clean it up, then collect the bodies and drag them through town behind their vehicles. Obviously this kind of action upset the local population greatly and we'd find we were suddenly getting no more cooperation from the locals"". General Georg Meiring, who served as chief of the South West African Territorial Force between 1983 and 1987, stated that ""Koevoet was not a law unto itself, Koevoet was just unto itself...I hated working with them."" In 1996, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate human rights abuses committed in South Africa and Namibia under the apartheid"
"1995. A seven-month trial then ensued and brought hostility between black and white South Africans to the fore once again. All the accused were eventually acquitted. President Mandela called on South Africans to respect the verdict. Nonetheless in South Africa, the Malan trial has come to be seen by some as a failure of the legal process. Malan also had to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. On 26 January 2007, he was interviewed by shortwave/Internet talk radio show ""The Right Perspective"". It is believed to be one of the very few, if not the only, interviews Gen. Malan"
"Charles Villa-Vicencio Charles Villa-Vicencio is an Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is also a Visiting research professor at Georgetown University. He was a director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which organised the public hearings on the atrocities committed during apartheid. He was Professor of Religion and Society at the University of Cape Town. He is presently an Emeritus Professor of that university. He was the National Research Director in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A regular contributor to debate in South Africa, his present work is largely in the area"
"Zululand; Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology, and a Master of Clinical Psychology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Mkhize is a founding member, and trustee, of the Children and Violence Trust since 1995, had been a trustee of the Malibongwe Business Trust from 2005. She was a senior lecturer and researcher at Wits University from 1990 until 1995. Mkhize was a board member of the South African Prisoner's Organisation for Human Rights from 1994 to 1995; Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Commissioner and Chairperson of the Reparations and Rehabilitation committee from 1995 to 2003. Prior to her appointment, Mkhize was"