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Asmal, Kader.

Reconciliation through truth : A reckoning of apartheid's criminal governance / Kader Asmal, Louise Asmal & Ronald Suresh Roberts. - 2nd ed., with afterword. - Cape Town : Oxford : New York : David Philip Publishers ; James Currey Publishers ; St. Martin's Press, c1997. - 231 p. ; 24 cm.

Afterword (p. I-XV) bound between p. 216 and 217.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226) and index.

Table of contents
Why face the past? achieving justice through truth; acknowledging the illegitimacy of apartheid; stark opposites - apartheid and the resistance to it; achieving genuine reconciliation; the need to decriminalise the resistance; acknowledging the need for corrective action; confronting the roots of violence; acknowledging the humanity of the resistance; the morality of armed resistance; establishing equality before the law; placing property on a legitimate footing; facing up to collective responsibility; apartheid and its neighbours; apartheid and the international community; finding one South Africa.

ISBN: 0312212747 (St. Martin's : cloth) 0312212755 (St. Martin's : paper) 0864863543 (David Philip : paper) 0852558031 (James Currey : cloth) 978052558027

LCCN: 98139199

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
South Africa - Apartheid

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Race Relations

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Truth & Reconciliation Commission

LC Class. No.: DT1974 / .A94 1997

Dewey Class. No.: 305.8009 ASM