Unfinished Business.

"This publication takes one back to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Faith Communities'Hearings in 1997 and the re-enactment of those hearings in 2014. Some communities revisit their support of those in power and their change of heart. Others revisit their struggle agai...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sun Media 2020.
Temas:
South Africa. > Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
South Africa. > Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Apartheid > South Africa > History.
Apartheid > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
Apartheid
South Africa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Editors' notes
  • Foreword
  • Looking back
  • 01
  • The South AfricanCouncil of Churches
  • A kaledoscope of memories
  • Introduction
  • Selection of the TRC commissioners
  • President Mandela's views on the TRC
  • Reparation for the victims and their families
  • Economic justice and land reform
  • The special role of the churches and church leaders
  • 02
  • ""The best of allhearings.""
  • The South African faith communities appear beforethe South African TRC
  • East-London, 17-19 November 1997
  • The Truth and Reconciliation process
  • Representatives from the South African faith communities called to the podium
  • The faith communities as agents of oppression
  • Faith communities as victims of oppression
  • Faith communities as opponents of apartheid
  • The faith communities' role in South Africa's transition
  • Answering the challenge
  • High expectations of the future role of the faithcommunities
  • Taking stock and moving forward
  • 03
  • Chronicle of there-enactment of theTRC's Faith Communities' Hearings with a view to the present and future of a Post-TRC South Africa
  • 8-9 October 2014, Stellenbosch
  • Introduction
  • Run-up to the re-enactment
  • The re-enactment consultation
  • Summary of Day One
  • Summary of Day Two
  • The way forward
  • Reflections on the process
  • Concluding remarks by Archbishop Tutu
  • Afterword: Actions following the consultation
  • General concluding remarks
  • 04
  • Witness statementat the re-enactment of TRC Faith Communities' Hearings
  • Introduction
  • Prophetic words
  • Religious potential
  • Embodying reconciliation
  • Instruments of religious reconciliation
  • 05
  • Faith communities,reconciliation and justice
  • Looking back at the South Africa we were
  • The South Africa we are in today
  • The South Africa we wish for
  • Not everyone is sitting around the table
  • Prophetic word
  • Reconciliation and forgiveness
  • Healing and justice
  • Conclusion
  • 06
  • Churches, universities and the post-TRC process
  • Impulses from a consultation
  • Introduction
  • Royal-servant unity and social cohesion
  • Priestly reconciliation and social healing
  • Prophetic justice and social solidarity
  • Conclusion
  • 07
  • Thoughts into action
  • Creating a long-term movement toward a reconciled and just society
  • Introduction: The past and the present
  • Faith communities as agents of change
  • Reconciliation and social justice as a long-term process and not an event
  • Process versus event
  • Systems thinking as an approach to social development
  • Strategies towards reconciliation
  • Conclusion
  • 08
  • Economic justice
  • the fulcrum of strongreconciliation
  • A Muslim critique of South Africa's TRC
  • Introduction
  • An Islamic concept of reconciliation
  • Theories of reconciliation
  • Sustainable and positive peace
  • The apartheid system as structural violence
  • Reconciliation according to the TRC

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