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Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid and Truth | 
 enlarge | Authors: Terry Bell, Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza, Dumisa Buhle Ntzebeza
Publisher: Verso
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 330182
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 6.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 1859845452
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.49096809045
EAN: 9781859845455
ASIN: 1859845452
Publication Date: September 4, 2003
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Product Description
Many people, both in South Africa and abroad, hoped that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission established in 1996 would uncover the hidden history of South Africa's apartheid past. It is a widely propagated myth that it did so. In fact, most of the thirty-three-year mandate of the Commission was ignored. Behind a facade of time constraints and managerial short comings, some intended investigations never proceeded, others were bungled. Most importantly, no serious examination was made of the system that gave rise to some of the most horrific, racist social engineering of modern times. Unfinished Business pulls back the curtain on the "political miracle" of the new South Africa to reveal some of the real stories in its past: how the Afrikaner Broederbond operated, the murderous activities of the South African security forces in Transkei, the citation of De Klerk as a defendant in a civil action for murder at exactly the moment he was traveling to Oslo to collect a Nobel peace prize, and many others. Seeking to probe where the Commission failed or feared to tread, this books asks how long South Africa's miracle might be expected to last.
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HONESTY not just "TRC" March 20, 2004
"Azaniaphile" - Frederica Azania Clare (USA and SOUTH AFRICA)
2 out of 30 found this review helpful
"How come you had to tell me that?" -Bob Dylan
READ IT AND WEEP! But ..."You gotta have a bullet-proof soul."
-Shadea. GO AHEAD...READ IT: "You shall know the truth...and the truth shall make you free." -Bible. Then, let us do the right thing...finally: REPARATIONS; LAND&WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION; RESTORATIVE JUSTICE! Let's not let the work of these two BRAVE WARRIORS be wasted for a moment. Not one word. Not one moment. "GO AHEAD ... READ IT! And,then...WORK4AZANIA...AZANIA...This is where we shall meet! Some day. Maybe one-day-sooner due to our attention to the "Unfinished Business" of South Africa and the world community envisioned by Bell and Ntzebeza.
Meet me there. -Azaniaphile
Face The Facts October 26, 2007
Old Long Bow (Delaware USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you think that post-apartheid South Africa has "buried" the past and is moving toward a brighter future....think again. This book confirms what I feared ever since the TRC was announced. So many unanswered questions...so much unfinished business. If you care anything at all about South Africa....read it...read it...read it.
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