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

Reconciliation: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s contribution to dealing with the past, reconciling and building the nation by S. Barry

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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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Taking responsibility for reconciliation: a Christian response to the legacy and challenges of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) by S. Barry

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Ndabethwa lilitye: Assumption, translation and culture in the testimony of one person before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Kopano Ratele, Nosisi Mpolweni-Zantsi, Antjie Krog

“…The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission took place in Cape Town. …”
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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: the role of the faith communities by P G J Meiring

“…Ten years after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission commenced with its work (1995), the author � using the statements made by representatives of the different faith communities in South Africa � analyses the role the communities played in the past: as agents of oppression, as victims of apartheid, as opponents of apartheid, as well as their role in the country�s transition to a new democratic society. …”
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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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Leadership for reconciliation: A Truth and Reconciliation Commission perspective by P. G. J. Meiring

“…Against the backdrop of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the author � who served on the Commission � discusses five characteristics of leaders for reconciliation. …”
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The Contribution of Victims and Survivors to the Process of Reconciliation in Northern Ireland by Fabrice Mourlon

“…In recent post-conflict societies, people who have been directly or indirectly affected by political violence (‘victims and survivors’) have been involved in reconciliation processes, whose archetype is the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Conflict-resolution theories have defined reconciliation as a long process necessary to create or recreate links between once-divided individuals and/or communities. …”
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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. …”

Reparasie, die onbetaalde rekening van die Waarheids- en Versoeningsproses by P. G. J. Meiring

“…<strong>Reparations, the unpaid account of the Truth and Reconciliation Process</strong><br /><span>The author contends that the final question about the contribution of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission will not be whether the Human Rights Violations Committee or even the Amnesty Committee were successful in their respective tasks of collecting data, as well as holding numerous victims' and amnesty hearings throughout the country, but concerns the question of reparation to the victims of apartheid. …”
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Official Responses to Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: Between Remembering and Forgetting by Fabrice MOURLON

“…In the absence of a global process to deal with the past such as the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, conclusions of these Inquiries and investigations have been made public since 2010. …”
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Poetic devices as part of the trauma narrative in Country of My Skull by Johan Anker

“…Krog is the narrator in this 'highly personal account', describing the traumatic testimonies of witnesses during the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She is confronted with her own traumatic experience as secondary witness to these events as a reporter, journalist, and translator-interpreter of stories of unspeakable horror. …”
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The Gorgon’s Head: On Narration, Torture and Truth-Seeking in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and in the South African TNC’s History-Writing and Restorative Undertaking... by Susanna Zinato

“…The article retrospectively considers the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s main assumptions and procedures concerning truth-seeking, narration and, by implication, healing, forgiveness and reconciliation, in the problematizing light that J.M. …”
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On the Definition of the Perpetrator: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century by Raya Morag

“…Aiming at the constitution of an appropriate instrument to deal with transitional justice issues, during the 1990s the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) interwove these subject positions, thereby attesting to a major transformation in post-genocide reconciliation processes, though not altering their basic foundation. …”
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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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