general books Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION REPORT, volumes 1-7
508 + 710 + 745 + 316 + 460 + 788 + 976 pp., illus., hardback, Cape Town, 1998. R1360
Andrews (M.) SHAPING HISTORY, narratives of political change
223 pp., paperback, Cambridge, 2007. R200
Includes the chapter, "South Africa: told and untold stories", which focuses on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Molly Andrews is Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, and Co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London.
Asmal (K.), Asmal (L.) & Roberts (R.S.) RECONCILIATION THROUGH TRUTH, a reckoning of apartheid's criminal governance
231 pp., paperback, Second Edition, Cape Town, Oxford & New York, (1996) 1997. R105
Foreword by Nelson Mandela.

Examines the historical and political background essential to an understanding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Kader Asmal was exiled in Ireland for 27 years. He was a Cabinet Minister in Nelson Mandela's government and is now a Member of Parliament.
Lifelong civil rights campaigner Louise Asmal is a former honorary secretary of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement.
Ronald Suresh Roberts, graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, and Harvard Law School, has lived in South Africa since 1994, and is the author of biographies of Nadine Gordimer and Thabo Mbeki.
Bell (T.) & Ntsebeza (D.B.) UNFINISHED BUSINESS, South Africa, apartheid and truth
385 pp., harback, d.w., Reprint, London, (2001) 2003. R195
Terry Bell and Dumisa Ntsebeza seek to reveal some of the hidden history of South Africa's apartheid past which he feels the Truth and Reconciliation Commission failed to uncover.

Terry Bell is a Cape Town-based freelance writer, columnist and editor.
Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza practices as an advocate in Cape Town and is a distinguished visiting professor of law and history at the University of Connecticut.
Boraine (A.) A COUNTRY UNMASKED, inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
466 pp., hardback, d.w., Oxford, 2000. R200
Alex Boraine, deputy chairman of the TRC, gives an insider's account of the Commission's conception, planning and life, reflects on the histories of P.W.Botha and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and evaluates the Commission's achievements and failures.
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