Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION: WESTERN CAPE
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission continues to explore the challenging concept of Reconciliation. While the work of the commission could be interpreted, and perhaps accepted, as "reconciliation without justice", a number of witnesses who have come to the commission have raised the question of what may be termed economic justice as a necessary component of the recommendations that the commission will make at the end of its term.
To open these views to public discussion, the TRC will be hosting a forum on Economic Justice and Reconciliation on Wednesday 19th March at the Old Town House, Frans Hals Room, on Green Market Square. The discussion will take place between 12.30pm and 2 pm.
Three panelists will open the discussion and speak on various aspects of the topic. Mrs. Cynthia Miya, one of the witnesses whose son was a victim in what has come to be known as the Guguletu 7, will give her perspective on the kind of recommendations the Commission's Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee should make at the end of its term.
The other two speakers will be Lungisile Ntsebeza, senior researcher at the UWC School of Government, and Professor Heribert Adam, visiting professor at the UCT Graduate School of Business, and who is co-author, with Kogila Moodley, of The Negotiated Revolution.
15 March 1997