History, historians and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Rafael Verbuyst

“…Whether or not the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) intended to write history, it certainly engaged with the past while historians were virtually absent. …”
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Confessional Performances: Perpetrators’ Testimonies to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Payne, L

Bonhoeffer and costly reconciliation in South Africa � through the lens of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission by P. G.J. Meiring

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Reconciliation and psychiatry in South Africa by Bernard Janse van Rensburg

“…Although psychiatrists did not form part of the structures of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa (SPSA) at the time did make a submission. …”
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Empties and complements by Pedro Javier López

“…The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been presented as an exemplar tool related to subjects as memory reconstruction or reconciliation; none the less, several criticisms have been made in relation to its results. …”
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Truth and reconciliation: Should the key notions be revised?: Experiences from South-Africa and Rwanda by Rombouts Heidy

“…Both the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Gacaca tribunals, which started recently in Rwanda, are framed in terms of truth and reconciliation. …”
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‘Bugger universality’: an exchange with Antjie Krog by Krog, A, McDonald, PD

“…Professor in the Arts at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, she has published widely in Afrikaans and English, including the poetry books Jerusalemgangers (1985) and Lady Anne (1989), and the prose works Country of My Skull (1998) and Conditional Tense: Memory and Vocabulary after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2013). ’n Vry vrou: Gedigte van Antjie Krog, a collection of her poems edited by Karen de Wet, was published in 2020. …”

In search of remorse: confessions by perpetrators of past state violence by Payne, L

“…The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), for example, provided perpetrators of apartheid era violence with amnesty in exchange for their confession. …”

Traumatic memory, representation and forgiveness: Some remarks in conversation with Antjie Krog’s <i>Country of My Skull</i> by Robert R. Vosloo

“…More specifically, the article focused on Antjie Krog’s profound and deeply moving engagement with the work and legacy of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in her book Country of My Skull (1998), that used the notion of forgiveness as lens for such an undertaking. …”
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Lydia’s silence: Representation of trauma from an ex-centric position in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit by Vipasha Bhardwaj

“…Lydia resists the reductionist approach that the members of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) had adopted while dealing with cases related to violence and human rights abuses. …”
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