Prosecuting apartheid-era crimes? : a South African dialogue on justice /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : International Human Rights Clinic, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2009. |
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| Description: | x, 160 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Human Rights Program practice series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7773738 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Prologue "You should use the past as a reference, lest you forget." John Kani
- Chapter 1. South Africa's Ongoing Pursuit of Justice
- Reflection: "Anyone who says applying for amnesty was easy or a soft option is wrong. Many who applied were as broken as the victims of their acts."
- Chapter 2. The TRC and Its Unfinished Business
- Reflection: "I know they talk about reconciliation at a national level. But with me, as a person, as someone who's gone through the pain, I feel like I also need revenge."
- Reflection: "A process for bringing together victims and offenders is very important."
- Chapter 3. Prosecutorial Powers in South Africa
- Reflection: "In South Africa, we have to be careful of a slide into impunity."
- Reflection: "A vigorous prosecutions policy, where we had nothing for seven or eight years, would seem a bit strange."
- Reflection: "[We] have to reconcile ourselves with ourselves."
- Chapter 4. Prosecutions Policy at Work
- Reflection: "Prosecutions will take the country backward."
- Reflection: "We can't prosecute everybody...[but] we can't not prosecute anyone."
- Reflection: "The Vlok plea: it wasn't a disclosure. It was an apology to Frank Chikane."
- Chapter 5. Prosecutions: Reflecting Back, Moving Forward
- Reflection: "The only way you're going to find out what happened is if you get someone to come and disclose... [D]o you think theyre going to tell us in the context of a court case, where they're pleading innocent? They're not."
- Reflection: "Justice is an ongoing paradigm."
- Appendix A. Prosecuting Policy and Directives Relating to the Prosecution of Offences Emanating from Conflicts of the Past and Which Were Committed on or Before 11 May 1994
- Appendix B. Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act (Act No. 34 of 1995, The "TRC ACT")
- Appendix C. Criminal Procedure Act (Act No. 51 of 1977)
- Appendix D. Plea and Sentence Agreement, State v. Ngoma, Nthlabathi, Nkithi, and Phalaphala ("The APLA Four")
- Appendix E. Individuals Interviewed
- Acknowledgments
