Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings and Final Report

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Coverage	1995-1998
Works using it	7

Debates

Debate	Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	4
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	4
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Historiographical approaches	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
Resistance and liberation movements	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Harris (2002)	Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings and final report (October 1998)	1995-1998	Shows that oral rather than documentary evidence carried the story of the state's dirty-tricks campaign against apartheid opponents.
Nattrass (1999a)	TRC Report, Vol. 4 (institutional hearing on business chapter) and Vol. 5 Ch. 8 Recommendations	1960-1994 (report 1998)	The object of analysis: its findings on three orders of business involvement and recommendations for wealth taxes and restitution are quoted and critiqued.
Nattrass (1999b)	Charles Simkins, Business and Human Rights, 1960-1994, prepared for the TRC	1997	Used to show a typology of business reformers, standpatters and expedient adapters supporting the argument about gradations of behaviour.
Nattrass (1999b)	TRC Final Report, Vol. 4 (institutional hearing on business, chapter on business)	1960-1994 (report 1998)	The object of analysis: its findings on first-, second- and third-order business involvement and its culpability reasoning are quoted and critiqued.
Nattrass (1999b)	TRC Final Report, Vol. 5, Ch. 8: Recommendations	1998	Source for the recommendations on wealth tax, once-off levy, 1 percent donation and odious debt, which the article criticises as blanket measures.
Stemmet (2002)	Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, vols 1-4	1998	Used for UDF findings on violence, CBW program and legal basis of army deployment.
Tilly (2005)	Truth and Reconciliation Commission Alexandra hearings	1990s (not specified)	Observed by the author and used to analyse how public memory and the myth of a unified nationalist community were formed.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Reparation and Rehab... (1998)	TRC Final Report Volume Five, Chapter Eight (recommendations on business and restitution)	1998	Source for the recommendations on business responsibility, the Business Reconciliation Fund and the 'huge and widening gap' quotation.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Reparation and Rehab... (1998)	TRC Final Report Volume Four, Chapter Two (business and labour hearings, institutional hearing on business)	apartheid era (hearings late 1990s)	Supplies the Commission's finding that business was central to the apartheid economy and generally benefited from apartheid policies.
Van Vuuren (2006)	TRC amnesty applications and hearings (e.g. Marthinus Ras amnesty application; Smit murders 1997)	1996-1998	Allegations of covert theft of ANC funds and findings on the Smit murders.
Van Vuuren (2006)	Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report (Vol. 2 ch. 6; Vol. 4) incl. Auditor-General secret funds report	1998	Supplies Table 1 of secret funds by department 1978-1994, audit limitations and recommendations on covert funding.