- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABSTRACTS
- <b>Introduction</b> Repairing the Past: Compensation for Victims of Human Rights Violations
- Chapter 1 Economic Reparations for Grave Human Rights Violations
- Chapter 2 The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile
- Chapter 3 The Reparations Program in Brazil
- Chapter 4 The Reparations Proposals of the Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Haiti
- Chapter 5 Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa
- Chapter 6 Reparations in Malawi
- Chapter 7 Report on Redress
- Chapter 8 Compensation for the Victims of September 11
- Chapter 9 The United Nations Compensation Commission
- Chapter 10 German Reparations to the Jews after World War II
- Chapter 11 Making Good Again: German Compensation for Forced and Slave Laborers
- Chapter 12 Justice and Reparations
- Chapter 13 Reparations, International Law, and Global Justice
- Chapter 14 Justice in Context
- Chapter 15 Reparations and Civil Litigation
- Chapter 16 Narrowing the Micro and Macro
- Chapter 17 Reparations and Mental Health
- Chapter 18 Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions
- Chapter 19 Financing Reparations Programs
- Chapter 20 Reparations and Microfinance Schemes
- Argentina
- Chile
- Brazil
- El Salvador
- Haiti
- South Africa
- MALAWI
- <b>USA</b>
- USA
- <b>Germany</b>
- Germany Forced and Slave Labor
- INDEX
Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa
Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa
- Chapter:
- (p.176) Chapter 5 Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa
- Source:
- The Handbook of Reparations
- Author(s):
Christopher J. Colvin
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper explores the reparations debate in post-apartheid South Africa and outlines the recommendations for reparations made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Although reparations were discussed at the multi-party negotiations at the end of apartheid, the new democratic constitution that came out of those negotiations did not provide for reparations. The legislation that created the TRC, however, established a special committee (the Committee on Reparations and Rehabilitation or CRR) to formally examine the reparations issue and make policy recommendations to the President. The CRR made its recommendations — widely considered to be one of the world’s most ambitious and comprehensive reparations policies — in the TRC’s 1998 Report. However, the South African government did not respond to these recommendations, arguing that since the work of other committees within the TRC was not yet finished, it could not consider the CRR’s proposed policy. Victim groups and civil society disagreed, and an acrimonious conflict ensued over the perceived slow pace of government action on reparations. Victims also pursued lawsuits for reparations against multinational corporations that conducted business with the apartheid government. In 2003, the government finally enacted a reduced version of the CRR’s original reparations policy.
Keywords: South Africa, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, reparations policy, apartheid
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- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABSTRACTS
- <b>Introduction</b> Repairing the Past: Compensation for Victims of Human Rights Violations
- Chapter 1 Economic Reparations for Grave Human Rights Violations
- Chapter 2 The Reparations Policy for Human Rights Violations in Chile
- Chapter 3 The Reparations Program in Brazil
- Chapter 4 The Reparations Proposals of the Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Haiti
- Chapter 5 Overview of the Reparations Program in South Africa
- Chapter 6 Reparations in Malawi
- Chapter 7 Report on Redress
- Chapter 8 Compensation for the Victims of September 11
- Chapter 9 The United Nations Compensation Commission
- Chapter 10 German Reparations to the Jews after World War II
- Chapter 11 Making Good Again: German Compensation for Forced and Slave Laborers
- Chapter 12 Justice and Reparations
- Chapter 13 Reparations, International Law, and Global Justice
- Chapter 14 Justice in Context
- Chapter 15 Reparations and Civil Litigation
- Chapter 16 Narrowing the Micro and Macro
- Chapter 17 Reparations and Mental Health
- Chapter 18 Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions
- Chapter 19 Financing Reparations Programs
- Chapter 20 Reparations and Microfinance Schemes
- Argentina
- Chile
- Brazil
- El Salvador
- Haiti
- South Africa
- MALAWI
- <b>USA</b>
- USA
- <b>Germany</b>
- Germany Forced and Slave Labor
- INDEX