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"In 1994, the first democratic elections ever were held in South Africa. New President Nelson Mandela was faced with the enormous task of reinventing South Africa as a democracy and delivering to an impatient electorate the economic and social change he had promised."--BOOK JACKET.
"Coming to Terms is a consideration of a country's attempt to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented look at the moral and political issues that shaped the Truth Commission, at the effect of the commission's hearings on a fragile democracy, and at the surprising and often horrifying information the commission hearings unearthed, both about particular crimes and about the nature and structure of apartheid."--BOOK JACKET.
"The only book to offer a complete and even-handed account of the work and the moral issues raised by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Coming to Terms is essential reading for anyone interested in South Africa, human rights, or the evolution of democracy."--BOOK JACKET.
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Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth
August 2001, Perseus Books Group
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Coming to terms: South Africa's search for truth
1999, Public Affairs
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Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for Truth traces the history of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the country's quest for self-determination in its transition from authoritarian rule to participatory democracy. - Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Drawing on decades of experience in the country and on his extensive coverage of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Martin Meredith tells a vividly South African story. But the issues involved are also utterly universal. In Meredith's view, for all the truth commission's dramatic achievements (and they were many), it left South Africa ultimately unsatisfied. The political parties condemned its report; whites largely ignored its work; and many victims felt that it robbed them of traditional justice. All that is true, and yet, viewed in global context, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a huge achievement, and its impact may seem even greater as time goes on. For all the limitations of South Africa's truth commission, it seems to have been more successful than anything else yet tried, in part because its designers could learn from the mistakes of nations that had come before. - Foreword.
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