Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80219-2 - The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State Richard A. Wilson Index More information INDEX Authors of secondary sources are listed in the index only when their work is cited in the text. Readers are therefore encouraged to consult the notes for information on both primary and secondary sources. Abbink, Jan, 214 in Latin America, 29, 226 Abercrombie, N., 151–2 objectives of, 23 Abrahams, Ray, 208, 210 national pragmatists vs. international Adam, Heribert, 12 retributionists, 171 adductive affinities, 129, 130–40, 220 see also Truth and Reconciliation African National Congress (ANC), 12, 44, Commission; ubuntu 65, 71, 80–1, 93, 165, 178–9, 200, 209 amnesty applications, 41, 62, 67, 85–6, and amnesty, 8, 73, 103 91–2, 103–4, 135, 140, 150, 168 and justice, 182, 196, 206, 209 Amnesty Committee (AC), 88, 110, 167 and nation building, 14, 17, 94, 222 and racism, 62, 87, 93 and the anti-amnesty coalition, 172 and reconciliation, 104–6 and the IFP, 73, 214 independence of, 41 and the NP, 6, 99 political motivation, 87–9 and the Third Force, 66 amnesty hearings, 154 and the TRC, 69, 93 an inversion of law, 19–20 continuing armed resistance, 70–1 ANC Youth League (ANCYL), 113, 158, governments, 122 182, 216 human rights talk, 5, 6, 223–4, 228–9 attempts to control, 178, 179 National Executive, 70, 80–1, 93 localized organization of, 177 paramilitaries, 179, 181 Anderson, Benedict, 115 reaction to TRC report, 80–1, 93 anti-apartheid, non–racial constitutionalism of, 12, 89 activists, Boipatong, 201 unbanning of, 63, 77 struggle, 50, 81–2, 128, 177, 199–200 see also ANC Youth League; Operation see also African National Congress Vula; Special Defense Units apartheid, 14, 35–6, 82–3, 84–5, 89, 90, Afrikaner nationalism, 85–6, 87–8, 102, 93, 103, 190–2, 194 223 on trial, 51 Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), security apparatus and crime, 82 85, 87–8, 91 violence, moral response to, 55–7 Alexandra township, TRC hearings, 50, see also racism 120–1, 131–2, 157–8, apartheid state, the, Allen, Jonathan, 56 and violence, 62, 77–8 Ally, Russell, 107–8 dual system of justice, 210–11 amaqabane, 194 reforms of, 191–2 amnesty, 8, 10–11 Argentina, truth commission, 52, 60, and international law, 25–6, 170–2 121 and political crime, 89 Asmal, Kadar, 103 and public opinion, 25 Asvat, Dr Abubaker, 167 and reconciliation, 98–9, 19–20, 23, 24, Azanian Peoples Liberation Army 29, 57–8, 154, 167–8, 172 (APLA), 91, 112, and the legal process, 20–1, 97–8 Azanian Peoples Organization (AZAPO), criteria for 62, 84–5, 104–5 158, 167–8, 172–3 263 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80219-2 - The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State Richard A. Wilson Index More information INDEX Ball, Patrick, 38, 41, 46 Comaroff, John, 124, 219 bangalalas, 190 commissioners courts, 190 battle of Blood River, 115–6 Community Councils Act (1977), 191–2, Bennun, Mervyn, 53, 75 209 Beresford, David, 166, 172 community courts see imbizo; township Biehl, Amy, 62, 91–2, 173–4 courts Biko, Steve, 27, 115, 167, 172 Community Courts Act (1996), 197 Bill of Rights, 6, 18, 194–5, 196–7, 206–7, community, notions of, 216 and the liberation struggle, 158 Blaskic, General Tihomar, 229 and traditional justice, 207–8 Boipatong community court, 163, 188, community policing forums, 198 198–201 see also Boipatong Community Policing patriarchy and, 202–4 Forum procedure of, 202–6, 211–2, 215, 220 compensation see reparation public perceptions of, 212 Conley, J., 38, 50, 142–3 Boipatong Community Policing Forum, Conservative Party, 86 217–18, 220 Constitution of South Africa, 168–9, 170 Boipatong, massacre, 24, 63, 65, 67–8, 76, constitutional court, 214 209–10 and amnesty, 167–73 Boipatong Residents Against Crime S v Makwanyane, 10 (BRAC), 188, 202–3 constitutional patriotism, 2–3 Boraine, Alex, 103 constitutionalism, 1, 2, 6, 55–6, 93 Borneman, John, 26, 56, 57, 228 and citizens’ rights, 229 Botha, P. W., 24, 69, 72, 78, 145 and crises of legitimacy, 28 Botha, Pastor Craig, 139 and governmental power, 7 Botha, Pik, 66, 68 and national identity, 2–3 Bozzoli, Belinda, 50, 111, 131–2, 157–8 and nationalism, 4 Bureau for State Security (BOSS), 72 see also civic nationalism Burman, Sandra, 188, 192 Convention for a Democratic South Buthelezi, Mangosuthu, 62, 66, 71–3, 80, Africa (CODESA) I and II, 6, 7–8 94 Convention on the Prevention and Buur, Lars, 34 Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), 171 Cachalia, A., 86 Coordinating Intelligence Committee, 77 Cape Town, court of appeal, 190 magistrates courts project, 197 courts see chiefs; commissioners; TRC hearings, 174 constitutional; imbizo; magistrates; capital punishment, 10 township courts Carolus, Cheryl, 103–4 crime, Chanock, Martin, 125–6, 126–7, 142, and amnesty, 228 198 and human rights violations, 79–84 Chiefs’ courts, 190, 213 statistics,160, 177, 195–6 see also imbizo; township courts criminal gangs, 113, 117, 118, 136, 178, Chikane, Frank, 109 186, 189 Chile, truth commission (Rettig see also gangsterism Commission), 13–14, 121 criminal prosecution, indemnity from, 97 Cindi, Nhlanhla, 135 Crocker, David, 228 Civil Cooperation Bureau, and political Cronjé, Brigadier Jack, 23–4, 106 assassinations, 77 customary law, 9, 189 Civilian Protection Service in the West and punishment, 11 Rand, 190 transformation of, 124–7 Cockrell, Alfred, 12 see also tribal law; Tswana law Coetsee, H J ‘Kobie’, 68 Coetzee, Dirk, 168 Davies, Margaret, 124 Coetzee, Robbie, 85–6 Davis, Dennis, 4, 195 Collier, Jane, 123–4 Day of Reconciliation, 14, 115 Comaroff, Jean, 203–4 Day of the Covenant, 115 264 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80219-2 - The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State Richard A. Wilson Index More information INDEX de Concheiro, Elvira B, 51 Goldstone Commission, 65, 183 de Klerk, F. W., 6, 71, 77, 63, 64, 68–9, 70, Goniwe, Matthew, 178 78, 80, 199 Government of National Unity (GNU), 9, de Kock, Eugene, 23, 66, 71, 75, 79, 82, 66, 73, 94, 99 102 Grenville-Grey, Thulani, 43 de Lange, Johnny, 17 Grobbelaar, Abraham, 150, 154 Degenaar, Johan, 3 Grobbelaar, Janice, 38, 39, 40, 41 Demjanjuk, John, 15 Group Areas Act, 90 Didcott, Justice, 172 Guatemala, Commission for Historical district court see imbizo; township courts Clarification, 60, 226 Dlamini, Jacob, 139, 163, 177 Guatemala, victims of state terror, 51 d’Olivera, Jan, 23 Gugulethu Seven, hearings, 174 dominant ideology thesis, 151–2 Gulbrandsen, Ørnulf, 124–5 Douglas, Lawrence, 57 Gumede, Emily, 146 du Plessis, Captain, 201 du Toit, André, 34, 51, 53–4, 59 Habermas, Jürgen, 1–2, 4, 45, 47 Duarte, Jessie, 14, 179–81 Hamber, Brandon, 43, 121 Duduza, Hani, Chris, 70 hearings, 115, 154 Hard Livings gang, 186 incident, 145 Harms Commission, 65 Durkheim, Emile, 98, 109, 131–2, 149 Hausner, Gideon, 16 Dutch Reformed Church, 173 Hechter, Captain Jacques, 23–4, 140, 141 Dworkin, Ronald, 4, 42 hegemony, 128, 151, 227 Hendler, Rabbi, 102 East London hearings, 167 Herstigte Nasionale Party, 87 East Rand, 180 historicity, Eastern Europe, 1 definitions of, 127–8 prosecutions, 26, 229–30 the new, 209 Eichmann, Adolf, 15–16 Hobbes, Thomas, 158 El Salvador, 29 Hobsbawm, Eric, 61 Ellis, Stephen, 76–7, 82 Hoebel, Adamson, 124 Engelbrecht, General ‘Krappies’, 65, 71 human rights, Epstein, Bill, 208 and constitutionalism, 1, 28, 208 Esikhawini hit squad, 71 and justice, 12, 27, 160–1, 201, 217, Ethiopia, reconciliation process, 214 224, 228–9 ethno-nationalism, and legal pluralism, 123–30 and the civic state, 1–3 and legitimacy, 225 and the Soviet Bloc, 1 and nation-building, 5–9, 26 and official versions of the past, 28 Fagan, Anton, 4 and the African community, 9–13 Felgate, Walter, 72 as reconciliation, 210 Foucault, Michel, 219 culture of, 1, 3, 175–6, 209–30, 227 Frank, Cheryl, 197 reporting, 33, 48 funerals, rights to, 57–61 political, 116, 117 subjectivity of, 45–6 township, 185 Human Rights Commission, 70, 157, 214, 229 gangsterism in political organizations, human rights talk, 194, 200–1, 222, 228–9 181, 189 globalization of, 223–4 Gauteng province, 82, 179–80 human rights violations, 19, 41, 54, 101, Geertz, Clifford, 124 217–8 Gellner, Ernest, 15, 29 and common crimes, 79–84 Gender Equality Commission, 157 categorization of, 53 Geneva Conventions (1949), 168, 171 investigation of, 33 Protocol II, 170, 234–5n limits placed on evidence, 49 Germans gang, 178–9, 183–4, 202 politically motivated, 7–8 Gibson, Lauren, 170–1 reparations, 22–3 265 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80219-2 - The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State Richard A. Wilson Index More information INDEX Human Rights Violation Committee justice, 26–7, 128 (HRVC), 21, 44, 89, 106, 107, 226 access to, 168, 172 Human Rights Violation, hearings, 109, African concepts of, 9–13, 27 119–21, 149–50, 154–5, 165–7 and international human rights, 228 a detriment to findings, 42 and reconciliation, 129 and compensation, 22–3 and the TRC, 213–14 public reactions to, 113–4, 173–4 local, justice, 160, 189–90, 193–4, religious nature of, 110, 130–6 213–14, 215–16 see also individual towns; reconciliation and punishment, 156 Human Sciences Research Council, concepts of, 200 195–6 unintended consequences