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Title:Victims, Survivors and Citizens: Human Rights, Reparations and Reconciliation in the South African Context
Author:Asmal, KaderISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights
Volume:1
Issue:1
Pages:1-22
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:South Africa
Southern Africa
Subjects:human rights
offences against human rights
compensation
Ethnic and Race Relations
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Politics and Government
Imperialism, Colonialism
apartheid
Abstract:The human rights debate in South Africa is largely governed by a rigid, State-based approach which assumes as an article of faith that restricting the authority of a future State is the best guarantee of individual rights. The author raises the query as to whether this is an adequate or satisfactory response to the pathology of apartheid and whether it is a satisfactory basis on which to build for the future. He proposes to look at community expectations and community needs, to examine what is needed and required of the law and, in particular, to determine how to deal with the humiliation, brutality, deprivation and degradation of the past. He first explains why it is important to come to terms with the past. Then he describes how victims of other dictatorially governed countries are being compensated by their new democratic governments and discusses the official response of the South African goverment in this regard. He argues that affirmative action is needed to give the victims of apartheid access to employment, land, housing and education. Ref.
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