The South African Coalition for Transitional Justice (SACTJ) has been operational since late 2008. It was initially convened as a loose association of civil society organizations working collaboratively to respond to the Special Dispensation on Political Pardons that would have
In May 2009, the City of Cape Town initiated a competition for the installation of a Memorial on Langa’s Washington Square to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of these events. The winning submission would be responsible for the creation and
In October 1985, in an operation to arrest stone throwers, the Joint Operation Command consisting of the South African Police, South African Railway Police and South African Defense Force, disguised as railway workers, hid in crates on the back of
On Thursday 28 January 2016, HRMC made a presentation to a group of survivors of the 1996 Christmas eve bomb blasts at the Breede River Municipality offices, outlining two memory work processes they were invited to participate in for the
More than 60 000 people lost their homes and possessions in fires orchestrated by security force members and other apartheid agents in the winter of 1986. The fires destroyed the squatter settlements of KTC, Crossroads, Nyanga Bush and Nyanga Extension
In 2002, the Khulumani Support Group filed a lawsuit against 23 foreign corporations that knowingly provided assistance to the apartheid government in the form of arms and ammunition, military technology, transport, and fuel to the security forces. The assistance enabled
The exhibition highlights aspects of the unfinished business of the TRC: the exclusion of survivors of gross human rights violations during apartheid from receiving individual reparations due to the ‘closed’ TRC list; ex-combatant’s difficulties to reintegrate, community reparations and rehabilitation,
Before the Fire and After the Fire More than 60 000 people lost their homes and possessions in fires orchestrated by security force members and other apartheid agents in the winter of 1986. The fires destroyed the squatter settlements of
The United Nations (UN) campaign against torture and rights of survivors: The UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1984. South Africa signed the UNCAT
Breaking the silence: A luta continua documents a process involving over one thousand Khulumani Support Group members in the Western Cape who used scrapbooks, body-maps, photographs, memory cloths, drawings, paintings, art banners and film to tell the stories of their
