Prosecuting Apartheid-era Crimes?

Prosecuting Apartheid-era Crimes?
Author: Tyler R. Giannini
Publisher: Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN:

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This book presents diverse perspectives on prosecutions in South Africa, including a foreword by playwright and actor John Kani. Throughout, it highlights such important themes related to any post-conflict prosecution as rule-of-law concerns, questions of evenhandedness and moral relativism, and the limits of a court-centered approach to justice.

Post-TRC Prosecutions in South Africa

Post-TRC Prosecutions in South Africa
Author: Ole Bubenzer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009-10-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9047430476

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After the transition to democracy in 1994, South Africa implemented an innovative scheme at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, granting perpetrators conditional amnesty. It essentially calls for the prosecution of those who did not receive amnesty for the crimes they committed during the apartheid conflict. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of prosecutions after the amnesty process. Drawing on interviews with key protagonists and largely unpublished documents, the volume analyses trials and the political background. It scrutinises the issue in the normative framework of national and international human rights law, and addresses whether the prosecutions were adequately carried out. The study thus allows a concluding evaluation of the justice and consistency of South Africa’s internationally acclaimed amnesty process.

Reconciliation Through Truth

Reconciliation Through Truth
Author: Kader Asmal
Publisher: New Africa Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780864863546

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The new South Africa has established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a mechanism to ensure a collective coming to grips with the apartheid system. The South African transition, while widely billed as a miracle, has not yet received the same systematic treatment as political transitions elsewhere. This book, written by active participants in the new democracy and in the anti-apartheid movement that preceded it, presents for the first time the new country's view of its old self. It supplies a valuable road map of the key issues and debates of the transition.

Justice in Transition - Prosecution and Amnesty in Germany and South Africa

Justice in Transition - Prosecution and Amnesty in Germany and South Africa
Author: Gerhard Werle
Publisher: BWV Verlag
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Amnesty
ISBN: 383051154X

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"The project on 'Criminal Justice and the East German Past' held an international symposium ... from 6 to 9 April 2005 at the Humboldt University in Berlin"--Page v.

Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity

Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
Author: Carla Ferstman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2020-02-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004377190

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Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making provides a rich tapestry of practice in the complex and evolving field of reparations, which cuts across law, politics, psychology and victimology, among other disciplines. Ferstman and Goetz bring their long experiences with international organizations and civil society groups to bear. This second edition, which comes a decade after the first, contains updated information and many new chapters and reflections from key experts. It considers the challenges for victims to pursue reparations, looking from multiple angles at the Holocaust restitution movement and more recent cases in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It also highlights the evolving practice of international courts and tribunals. First published in a hardbound edition, this second, fully revised and updated edition, is now available in paperback.

Prosecuting International Crimes in Africa

Prosecuting International Crimes in Africa
Author: Chacha Murungu
Publisher: PULP
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2011
Genre: Africa south of Sahara
ISBN: 0986985783

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"Prosecuting international crimes in Africa contributes to the understanding of international criminal justice in Africa. The books argues for the rule of law, respect for human rights and the eradication of a culture of impunity in Africa. it is a product of peer-reviewed contributions from graduates of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, where the Master's degree programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa has been presented since 2000"--Back cover.

National Accountability for International Crimes in Africa

National Accountability for International Crimes in Africa
Author: Emma Charlene Lubaale
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2022-02-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030880443

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This book critically examines the issues pertaining to the Rome Statute’s complementarity principle. The focus lies on the primacy of African states to prosecute alleged perpetrators of international crimes in their respective jurisdictions. The chapters explore states’ international and domestic obligations to hold perpetrators of international crimes to account before the national courts, and demonstrate the complexity of enforcing national accountability of alleged perpetrators of international crimes while also ensuring that post-conflict African states achieve national healing, reconciliation, and sustainable peace. The contributions reject impunity for international crimes whilst also considering these complexities. Emphasis further lies on the meaning of accountability in the context of the politics of selective international criminal justice for crimes committed before the establishment of the International Criminal Court.

White Man's Justice

White Man's Justice
Author: Michael Lobban
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1996
Genre: Apartheid
ISBN: 9780198260233

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This major new study of the famous political trials of 1970s in South Africa traces the extraordinary steps by which the now dismantled system of Apartheid sought to employ the legal sanctions to prosecute its campaign against its opponents, the ANC, the National Union of South African Students, the Black People's Convention and the South African Students Organizations. Readers will find this work original and thought-provoking.

Timol

Timol
Author: Imtiaz Cajee
Publisher: Real African Publishers
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Ahmed Timol is one of the most celebrated official murder victims of apartheid South Africa, in the grim company of Solwande 'Looksmart' Ngudle, Joseph Mdluli, Dr. Hoosen Haffejee, Steve Biko, Neil Aggett, the Imam Haron and so many others. The technique of 'defenestratio, ' the act of being teasingly dangled and sometimes dropped, by accident or on purpose, from a high police window, was immortalised in his own death. Ahmed Timol plunged ten stories and hit the ground under bushes at Johannesburg's notorious John Vorster Square.