The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Home Page includes transcripts of hearings and text of amnesty petitions
 The South African Broadcasting Corporation, producers of the series
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Victim-Perpetrator Meetings

- produced by Wendy Phillips, Megumi Kayaki -Taniguchi and Bijal Shah

WEBSITES

 Information on the life and death of Ashley Kriel

http://www.ijr.org.za/memoryh/profiles/ashley.pdf

 

Complete transcript of Jeffrey Benzien’s amnesty hearings

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/am1997.htm

 

Transcription of exchange between Jeffrey Benzien and Ashley Forbes

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/amntrans/capetown/capetown_benzien.htm

 

South African Government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Press Release: Jeffrey Benzien Granted Amnesty

http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1999/99218_0bb09999_10159.htm

 

Putting a Face on the Past: Survivor-Offender Mediation and the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

http://www.csvr.org.za/papers/papbhcs.htm

 

Background on Ashley Forbes involvement in the MK

http://byronik.com/forbes.html

 

Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/manifesto-mk.html

 

Detailed report of Jeffrey Benzien’s amnesty decision

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/decisions/1999/99_benzien.html

 

Summary of the case brought against Ashley Forbes, The Trial of the Cape Town Fifteen

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/trials/pride.html#FORBES

 

Commentary on Benzien using the wet bag method in his amnesty hearing

http://www.trcresearch.org.za/papers99/bester.pdf

 

Excerpt from Antje Krog’s book, Country of My Skull

http://www.africanreviewofbooks.com/100best/100bestsamples/krog.html

 

Daley, Susan. New York Times piece discussing the amnesty hearing of Jeffrey Benzien.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/37a/041.html

 

Info on Tshidiso Motasi

http://www.khulumani.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=66

 

Human Rights claim brought by the Motasis in Eastern District of New York

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ozrPixO3N-wJ:www.khulumani.net/documents/complaint.pdf+Tshidiso+Motasi&hl=en

 

Tape 51, Episode 51, Tshidiso Motasi

http://islandia.law.yale.edu/video/SMIL/demo/summary.htm

 

BBC News Interview of Paul van Vuuren

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4412065.stm

 

Paul van Vuuren’s TRC Amnesty Application

http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2000/000505229p1003.htm

 

Transcript of Paul van Vuuren’s TRC Hearing

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s10597.htm

 

New article about relatives of victims opposed to Paul van Vuuren’s amnesty

http://www.anc.org.za/anc/newsbrief/1996/news1031

 

Paul van Vuuren’s commentary about some of his murders

http://www.dialnsa.edu/iat97/johannesburg/alt_currents/botha.html

 

U.S. Department of Justice report on TRC Hearing of Paul van Vuuren

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/pr/2000/pr000518.htm

 

A TRC amnesty decision regarding Paul van Vuuren

http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2000/0010051225p1006.htm

 

A listing of many TRC applications for amnesty, including some of Paul van Vuuren

http://www.stanford.edu/class/history48q/Documents/EMBARGO/2chap3.htm

 

Background information on the St. James Massacre

Christians Under Fire: The St James Massacre at http://www.frontline.org.za/articles/christians_underfire.htm

 

Background information on the St. James Massacre.

http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/thisday/1993-07-25.htm

 

Comments made by Dawie Ackerman after the TRC process.

Kate Dunn (Special to The Christian Science Monitor), Power of Forgiveness in South Africa at

http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/07/03/p1s3.htm

 

The official statement of the amnesty application hearing for the perpetrators in the St. James Massacre.

http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1997/06230r28397.htm

 

This is an accompaniment to the film “Facing the Truth.” It is intended to serve as a stepping stone for study groups to relate the South African experience to the U.S. struggle over slavery, segregation and discrimination.

Truth & Reconciliation: Developed to Accompany Facing the Truth (with Bill Moyers) at http://www.wnet.org/facingthetruth/organizations.pdf

 

Provides a list of books and articles written by Pumla Godobo-Madikizela.

http://thefoundationtrust.org/pgcv.htm

 

 

Biography of Pumla Godobo-Madikizela.

http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/psychology/staff/godobo.html

 

Supplemental:

Article exploring the relationship between reconciliation and healing.

http://ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za/archive/two/6_34/p24_winslow.html

 

Report of the National Strategy Workshop on Reparations, compiled by Simon Kimani at http://www.csvr.org.za/papers/papkim.htm

 

Kader Asmal, Truth, Reconciliation and Justice: The South African Experience in Perspective, delivered at the 1999 Chorley Lecture

http://ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za/archive/two/6_34/p24_winslow.html

 

World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children

http://www.unicef.org/wsc/declare.htm.

 

Convention of the Rights of the Child

http://www.unicef.org/crc/crc.htm.

 

Article about the social healing of displaced children of apartheid

http://www.asylumsupport.info/publications/rsc/healing.htm.

 

Excerpt from TRUTH & LIES

http://www.coldtype.net/Assets/pdfs/Truth.pdf#search='Paul%20Van%20Vuuren’

 

Article including description of the African National Congress handshake http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,971226,00.html

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