TRC

Question 1

Human Rights Violations Committee

Answer 1

1. Listen to testimonies of victims in public hearings

Aim: reveal details of secret hrv under apartheid

Question 2

Amnesty Comm

Answer 2

Asess perp and make dec to grant

Amnesty = pardon from prosection. It assumes you guilty

Question 3

Reparation and Rehab Comm

Answer 3

Recommend form of reparations or interventions should make to help victims

Question 4

Justice, forms

Answer 4

Justice= actions being fair
Retributive Justice= a form of punishment if a crime is comm. i.e Nuremburg trials
Restorative Justice: Crime=harm people therefore repair those harms
Tutu: Carrot and stick

Question 5

Amnesty (s)

Answer 5

Pardon from punsishment
Blanket: Group is granted amnesty without conditions attached.
Conditionsal: Certian conditions must be met= acc or den

Question 6

Catharsis

Answer 6

A difficult psycologic. process of releasing rep emotions

Aim: Find relief from testfying, watching = reconciliation?

Question 7

Reconciliation

Answer 7

Healing of divisions.

Question 8

Rainbow nation

Answer 8

We are all different but a single unit. Celebration of diversity.

Question 9

Contextual Factors influencing the TRC

Answer 9

1. Agreed as provsion in the Interim Consti: Comprimise Sol
2. Victims satisf V.S Amnest: designed for middle sol
3. Amnesty Contraversy

Question 10

Amnesty contraversy

Answer 10

1. Phil of forgiv. And practicality= no of crimes be too high for new giv to deal with
2. Offered as incentive for ppl to come foward: gained truth (requirement of full disclosure)
3. Legal: Mxenge, Biko

Question 11

Victim heaings

Question 12

1960s not onwards

Question 13

Victim hearings vs amnesty application hearings

Question 14

who worked on commities in trc

Question 15

How long was the trc active?