This document summarizes perspectives on reparations and redress for racial injustices in South Africa. It discusses the views of thinkers like Bryan Stevenson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Hillary Beckles who argue that countries must address the lasting impacts of policies like slavery, segregation, and colonialism. It notes that resistance to reparations in South Africa reflects a failure to understand how these historical actions have harmed people and that reckoning with moral debts is needed for true peace and healing. The document advocates for a 10-point plan of reparatory justice, including apologies, cultural programs, and debt cancellation to address inequalities and move towards repairing damage from the past.
As the country gears up for a year of intensified advocacy for the resolution of the many issues left incomplete by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the eve of the 20th Anniversary of the commencement of the TRC's work in 2016, the continuing challenges that have resulted from the failure to complete the work initiated by the country's TRC, were presented to the UCT Medical Class of 1975 at its reunion on Saturday 21 November 2015 in Cape Town.
This talk was given as part of the DD Network day, in June 2017, exploring the relationship between disability, citizenship and wider social movements to advance a richer and more welcoming community life.
DD Network convened an important event in Madison, Wisconsin to explore the relationship between the learning from advocates of inclusion and the wider world of advocates for democracy and social justice. In this talk Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform argues that the experience of people with disabilities offers powerful lessons for the kind of social change we need and the limitations of working in narrow silos. He provides evidence of the extreme targeting of people with disabilities in the UK's austerity programme and the dangers of scapegoating and meritocracy. He proposes that we need to take the necessity of the welfare state much more seriously and integrate it into our thinking about constitutional reform.
Tshepo Madlingozi: 20 Years of TRC - TAKING STOCK OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRUTH ...Khulumani Support Group
by Tshepo Madlingozi, Chairperson of Khulumani Support Group at the 3rd INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF THE INSTTUTO HUMANITAS at UNISINOS, Brazil 16 September 2015
Dr Simon Duffy presented these slides to a meeting of the Socialist Health Association SHA) which was also joined by members of Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) on 18th June 2016. He proposed that the whole social care system was flawed and based on old-fashioned institutional models that were dangerous and undermined people's citizenship. He proposed radical reform and the creation of an effective right for independent living.
Notes from seminars run for the Bishop of Wakefield in the North of England. The presentation explains why the welfare state is good and necessary - but designed wrong. It challenges the current conception of welfare reform and proposes, instead a model based on enhancing citizenship for all.
Simon Duffy explores how the concept of citizenship can provide a valuable framework for understanding the meaning of deinstitutionalisation, self-directed support and welfare reform.
The presentation is based on a philosophical paper which outlines both the causes of the current attack on the welfare state and recommends new thinking about the purpose and structure of the welfare state
As the country gears up for a year of intensified advocacy for the resolution of the many issues left incomplete by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the eve of the 20th Anniversary of the commencement of the TRC's work in 2016, the continuing challenges that have resulted from the failure to complete the work initiated by the country's TRC, were presented to the UCT Medical Class of 1975 at its reunion on Saturday 21 November 2015 in Cape Town.
This talk was given as part of the DD Network day, in June 2017, exploring the relationship between disability, citizenship and wider social movements to advance a richer and more welcoming community life.
DD Network convened an important event in Madison, Wisconsin to explore the relationship between the learning from advocates of inclusion and the wider world of advocates for democracy and social justice. In this talk Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform argues that the experience of people with disabilities offers powerful lessons for the kind of social change we need and the limitations of working in narrow silos. He provides evidence of the extreme targeting of people with disabilities in the UK's austerity programme and the dangers of scapegoating and meritocracy. He proposes that we need to take the necessity of the welfare state much more seriously and integrate it into our thinking about constitutional reform.
Tshepo Madlingozi: 20 Years of TRC - TAKING STOCK OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRUTH ...Khulumani Support Group
by Tshepo Madlingozi, Chairperson of Khulumani Support Group at the 3rd INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF THE INSTTUTO HUMANITAS at UNISINOS, Brazil 16 September 2015
Dr Simon Duffy presented these slides to a meeting of the Socialist Health Association SHA) which was also joined by members of Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) on 18th June 2016. He proposed that the whole social care system was flawed and based on old-fashioned institutional models that were dangerous and undermined people's citizenship. He proposed radical reform and the creation of an effective right for independent living.
Notes from seminars run for the Bishop of Wakefield in the North of England. The presentation explains why the welfare state is good and necessary - but designed wrong. It challenges the current conception of welfare reform and proposes, instead a model based on enhancing citizenship for all.
Simon Duffy explores how the concept of citizenship can provide a valuable framework for understanding the meaning of deinstitutionalisation, self-directed support and welfare reform.
The presentation is based on a philosophical paper which outlines both the causes of the current attack on the welfare state and recommends new thinking about the purpose and structure of the welfare state
Dr Simon Duffy spoke to the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru about inequality in the UK and the personal and political responsibility we have for challenging it. He challenged some of the current approaches to poverty reduction and argued for both Basic Income and democratic and social reform.
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk to Directors of Public Health and other professionals in Birmingham in July 2016. He contends that there is no fundamental problem with the welfare state other than (a) we have abandoned concern for equality and (b) we have not designed a welfare state to effectively promote our own active citizenship. He sets out a series of possible changes to genuinely reform (rather than cut and undermine) the welfare state based on real community-based initiatives.
Christianity and Social Justice: exploring the meaning of welfare reformCitizen Network
This presentation was given to the Archbishop of York and to bishops from the North East of England and Yorkshire. It explores the current crisis in the welfare state in the UK, the myths that dominate thinking and outlines the Christian case for some new and deeper thinking about the purpose and design of the welfare state.
The global challenge of achieving citizenship for allCitizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy, at the Manawanui International Conference on self-direction, argues that we can work together to advance citizenship for all. He outlines the place that self-directed support has had in advancing citizenship, but also warns of the danger of consumerism. He explores the growing threats to citizenship from scapegoating and meritocracy. He launched an international membership cooperative - Citizen Network.
The global refugee crisis threatens liberal world orderSMACC Conference
From DAS SMACC, Vera Sistenich explains why it is critical that we care about the global refugee crisis.
The global refugee crisis exemplifies some of the greatest challenges facing our global institutions and liberal world order today. From human rights, to xenophobia, sexism and economic protectionism, terrorism and climate change.
National and international responses to the refugee crisis are sculpting moral and political norms around the globe.
It is critical that we care about the refugee crisis today because it exemplifies some of the greatest challenges to our social order.
As Hannah Arendt, the German-born Jewish political theorist wrote, "The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. ...[T]hinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down". It is now critical that we not only care, but think deeply, about our attitudes and policies towards refugees, wherever we come from.
Tune in to an engaging and informative talk by Vera Sistenich, as she challenges us to consider how the global refugee crisis threatens liberal world order.
For more like this, head to our podcast page. #CodaPodcast
Citizen Network Australia was formally launched in Perth, WA on 21st August 2017. These slides were presented by Leanne Pearman, Rosie Lawn and Simon Duffy.
Dr Simon Duffy spoke to the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru about inequality in the UK and the personal and political responsibility we have for challenging it. He challenged some of the current approaches to poverty reduction and argued for both Basic Income and democratic and social reform.
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk to Directors of Public Health and other professionals in Birmingham in July 2016. He contends that there is no fundamental problem with the welfare state other than (a) we have abandoned concern for equality and (b) we have not designed a welfare state to effectively promote our own active citizenship. He sets out a series of possible changes to genuinely reform (rather than cut and undermine) the welfare state based on real community-based initiatives.
Christianity and Social Justice: exploring the meaning of welfare reformCitizen Network
This presentation was given to the Archbishop of York and to bishops from the North East of England and Yorkshire. It explores the current crisis in the welfare state in the UK, the myths that dominate thinking and outlines the Christian case for some new and deeper thinking about the purpose and design of the welfare state.
The global challenge of achieving citizenship for allCitizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy, at the Manawanui International Conference on self-direction, argues that we can work together to advance citizenship for all. He outlines the place that self-directed support has had in advancing citizenship, but also warns of the danger of consumerism. He explores the growing threats to citizenship from scapegoating and meritocracy. He launched an international membership cooperative - Citizen Network.
The global refugee crisis threatens liberal world orderSMACC Conference
From DAS SMACC, Vera Sistenich explains why it is critical that we care about the global refugee crisis.
The global refugee crisis exemplifies some of the greatest challenges facing our global institutions and liberal world order today. From human rights, to xenophobia, sexism and economic protectionism, terrorism and climate change.
National and international responses to the refugee crisis are sculpting moral and political norms around the globe.
It is critical that we care about the refugee crisis today because it exemplifies some of the greatest challenges to our social order.
As Hannah Arendt, the German-born Jewish political theorist wrote, "The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. ...[T]hinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down". It is now critical that we not only care, but think deeply, about our attitudes and policies towards refugees, wherever we come from.
Tune in to an engaging and informative talk by Vera Sistenich, as she challenges us to consider how the global refugee crisis threatens liberal world order.
For more like this, head to our podcast page. #CodaPodcast
Citizen Network Australia was formally launched in Perth, WA on 21st August 2017. These slides were presented by Leanne Pearman, Rosie Lawn and Simon Duffy.
Making the digital workplace a reality requires a modern and strategic approach to identity protection. You will discover ways to build an IAM program that moves you from defense to offense. This presentation will offer practical guidance on how a hardware-based multi-factor authentication strategy is the future for identity protection.
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CCIE is world's most prestigious IT certifications by Cisco and globally recognized. CCIE's are rare in the world. Only 40,000 CCIE certified engineers in the world right now whereas IT industry needs over 5,00,000 in year 2016. So scope and career growth of CCIE certifications is excellent.
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Dr Simon Duffy's talk at Inclusion BC's Conference - Inspired by Love. Simon argues that love fosters and seeks citizenship for all. He explores the past for people with disabilities and the ideas that have held us back from a world of justice. He offers thoughts on how we can create a world where everyone matters.
Khulumani's submission on the international apartheid lawsuit that sought to hold foreign multinationals that engaged in corrupt sanctions-busting activities accountable for their role in aiding and abetting the perpetrations of gross human rights violations against thousands of black South Africans. Visit corruptiontribunal.org.za for updates.
Ongoing Advocacy for a Comprehensive Reparations Programme in South Africa fo...Khulumani Support Group
KHULUMANI WORKS ON REPARATIONS SUBMISSIONS TO ASSIST THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO ACHIEVE JUSTICE AND REPARATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF APARTHEID GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Khulumani Support Group (www.khulumani.net) and member organisations of the South African Coalition on Transitional Justice are working on submissions to the Department of Justice to assist in their adoption after so many years of a comprehensive programme of reparations to redress the damage suffered by victims in their contribution to the liberation struggle in South Africa. 2016 marks the 20th Year since the commencement of the TRC in April 1996.
Dr Cath Byrne who completed her PhD with Khulumani Support Group almost 20 years ago through the University of Santa Cruz in California, USA, returned in 2005 to conduct follow up interviews with victims and survivors who had received the Individual Reparations Grants.
This year Cath summarised her findings regarding the experiences of those relatively few survivors of apartheid gross human rights violations, who had received the benefit of a R30,000.00 once-off grant. These findings are summarised in the attached Power Point presentation. Cath has expressed the hope that these findings might inform Khulumani's ongoing advocacy for reparations.
Cath produced a book of the 30 narratives told to her that had formed the basis of her PhD. The book is called All That Was Lost and was launched by Khulumani with all 30 families present, at an event held in Freedom Square, Kliptown followed by a lunch at the Soweto Hotel.
Khulumani wishes to sincerely thank Dr Cath Byrne for her continued and continuing concern for the lives of survivors of apartheid gross human rights violations.
Back to basics: towards community rehabilitation programs for those whose liv...Khulumani Support Group
Eleven years after Khulumani first made formal presentations to officials in the Office of then President Mbeki on conceptual approaches to fulfilling state obligations to make redress to individuals and the communities in which they live, following their harm resulting from the perpetration of gross human rights violations under apartheid, largely at the hands of state officials, these matters remain unresolved and still contested.
The monthly Transdisciplinarity Seminar held at the Environmental Learning and Research Centre was led by the Khulumani team in Makana Municipality on 21 August 2014.
The topic was 'Complexity in Community Relationships' and focused on the requirements for 'the dominated' to act to change their circumstances through making organised and effective demands through asserting a tactical agency. This is defined as 'discerning and making use of possible opportunities to find a way or to use one's own means.'
Moving from victimhood to empowered citizenship (Khulumani's mission) requires that the dominated link historical consciousness, critical thinking and emancipatory behaviour.
Reconciliation: Cheap or costly by Dr. Marjorie Jobson - Khulumani Support GroupKhulumani Support Group
A presentation by Dr. Marjorie Jobson, National Director of the Khulumani Support Group in South Africa & Juan Kariem, as part of a workshop 'Reconciliation: Cheap or Costly' in the Grahamstown Cathedral on 10 July 2014.
Submission of Presentation made by Tshepo Madlingozi at the 6 October 2012 Se...Khulumani Support Group
Khulumani Board Member, Tshepo Madlingozi made a presentation to a seminar held in Frankfurt, Germany last Saturday, October 6, 2012 that was focused on the ANC at 100 years. The seminar was entitled ANC: From Liberation Movement to Ruling Party.
The title of Tshepo's presentation was 'Revolt of the poor' and search for a Post-Apartheid South Africa.
Tshepo highights that Khulumani Support Group was amongst the first of the country's post-apartheid social movements and that it has had to contend with a very challenging social and economic landscape that has seen growing retrenchments, deepening poverty and growing difficulty in citizens being able to pay for services that results in water and electricity cut-offs and housing evictions.
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Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
Up the Ratios Bylaws - a Comprehensive Process of Our Organizationuptheratios
Up the Ratios is a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap in STEM education for underprivileged students by providing free, high-quality learning opportunities in robotics and other STEM fields. Our mission is to empower the next generation of innovators, thinkers, and problem-solvers by offering a range of educational programs that foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.
At Up the Ratios, we believe that every student, regardless of their socio-economic background, should have access to the tools and knowledge needed to succeed in today's technology-driven world. To achieve this, we host a variety of free classes, workshops, summer camps, and live lectures tailored to students from underserved communities. Our programs are designed to be engaging and hands-on, allowing students to explore the exciting world of robotics and STEM through practical, real-world applications.
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Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
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Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Canadian Immigration Tracker March 2024 - Key SlidesAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents decrease along with percentage of TR2PR decline to 52 percent of all Permanent Residents.
March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
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An Unresolved Struggle for Reparations, Redress & Restitution in South Africa
1. An Unresolved Struggle for
Reparations, Redress & Restitution
INSIGHTS FROM
KHULUMANI SUPPORT GROUP
SOUTH AFRICA
2. Understanding Resistance to this Struggle in Africa
• Thoughts from Bryan Stevenson:
Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Legal Representative for
Children in Conflict with the Law in the US and for Persons on
Death Row
• Critical thinking from Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Critical thinking and advocacy from Sir Hillary Beckles
• Critical thinking from Antjie Krog
• Critical thinking from Khulumani Support Group
3. Bryan Stevenson, the Equal Justice Initiative
• The stunning silence continues.
• We have not understood what
our historical actions have meant
to affected people.
• Black people have lives in a era of
terror for centuries; the threat of
terror has defined their lives.
• British colonialism in South
Africa was shaped by the
philosophy of “instilling a proper
degree of terror.”
4. Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Case for Reparations
• Two hundred fifty years of
slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow.
Sixty years of separate but equal.
Thirty-five years of racist
housing policy. Until we reckon
with our compounding moral
debts, America will never be
whole.
• Until South Africans reckon with
their compounding moral debts,
peace will elude us.
5. Living against the odds: 1755 to the present
• African Americans have lived
under the blind decree of justice,
but (in reality) under the heel of
a regime that elevated armed
robbery to a governing principle.
• A Great Migration, a mass
exodus of 6 million African
Americans that spanned most of
the 20th century, took place with
African Americans journeying
north to seek the protection of
the law.
• From the 1930s through the
1960s, black people across the
country were largely cut out of
the legitimate home-mortgage
market through means both
legal and extra-legal. Chicago
whites employed every measure,
from “restrictive covenants” to
bombings, to keep their
neighbourhoods segregated.
6. Red-Lining in Chicago & in Khayelitsha
There is no access to
mortgage bonds for
home-owners in
Khayelitsha on
grounds that the
houses have
asbestos roofs. This
racial policy “could
well have been
culled from the
Nuremberg laws.”
Chicago
7. Black Wealth / White Wealth: A Shared
Experience in Settler Colonies
• Whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate
credit system backed by the government. Blacks were herded into the sights
of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport.
• “I’d come out of Mississippi where there was one mess, and come up here and
got in another mess. So how dumb am I? I didn’t want anyone to know how
dumb I was. I just left this mess. I just left no laws. And no regard. And then I
come here and get cheated wide open. I would probably want to do some harm
to some people, you know, if I had been violent like some of us.”
• In return for the “deprivations of their rights and privileges under the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments,” the Contract Buyers League
demanded “prayers for relief”.
8. “Prayers for Relief”
• No longer appealing to the
government simply for equality;
no longer fleeing in hopes of a
better deal elsewhere.
• Charging society with a crime
against their community &
demanding the crime publicly be
ruled as such.
• Asserting a claim for restitution
for the great injury brought upon
them by offenders.
A CRITICAL SHIFT
• No longer simply seeking the
protection of the law.
• Seeking reparations.
• Black neighbourhoods are
characterized by high
unemployment and households
headed by single parents. They
are not simply poor; they are
“ecologically distinct.”
• Fault lines remain everywhere.
9. Long-term impacts
• With segregation, with the
isolation of the injured and the
robbed, comes the concentration
of disadvantage.
• The labelling of this reality as the
result of cultural pathologies
that can be altered through
individual grit and exceptionally
good behaviour, is a convenient
lie.
• The kind of trenchant racism to
which black people have
persistently been subjected can
never be defeated by making its
victims more respectable
• The essence of racism is
disrespect. In the wake of grim
numbers, we see the grim
inheritance.
10. Reparations Movement in the 20th Century
• The movement coalesced in 1987
under an umbrella organization
called the National Coalition of
Blacks for Reparations in America
(N’COBRA). The NAACP endorsed
reparations in 1993.
• Broach the topic of reparations
today and a barrage of questions
inevitably follows: Who will be
paid? How much will they be paid?
Who will pay?
• If the practicalities, not the justice,
of reparations are the true sticking
point, there has for some time been
the beginnings of a solution.
• Having been enslaved for 250 years,
black people were not left to their
own devices. They were terrorized.
• HR 40, the Commission to Study
Reparation Proposals for African
Americans Act, the Conyer’s Bill,
has never—under either Democrats
or Republicans—made it to the
House floor.
• We inherit our ample patrimony
with all its incumbrances; and are
bound to pay the debts of our
ancestors. (Yale President Timothy
Dwight said in 1810)
11. Sir Hillary Beckles, Vice Chancellor, University of the
West Indies, a Barbadian Historian
Reparatory justice is not a backward
call for handouts as many believe. On
the contrary, it is a call for
development cooperation.
The 10-point action plan: An apology,
repatriation, an indigenous people’s
programme, cultural institutions,
programmes designed to improve
public health, promotion of literacy
and African knowledge; psychological
rehabilitation and technology
upgrading programmes and debt
cancellation.
12. Today in a South Africa Resisting
Reparations, there is agony
Agon – a contest (usually sport) but
then also in literature (thus giving us
the protagonist and antagonist as
characters).
Agonism – a contestatory way of
presenting ideas in the public sphere
or in intellectual sparring.
Agonist – a person engaged in a
contest, conflict, struggle, etc (or
agonists are drugs that mimic
neurotransmitters and make the
neuron fire!).
Agony – a display or outburst of
intense mental or emotional
excitement. A struggle within the
soul, a contest leading to death.
13. Lessons from the Life of Antjie Krog:
Journalist & Author Anthea Garman
Speaking (and being listened to)
demands capital and authority –
and these are invisible, intangible
things.
A public sphere is not an empty
open space into which anyone can
step and then speak (this is one of
democracy’s illusions).
We have a very necessary loud and
busy public sphere full of
agonising!
14. Black Plunder, White Democracy: Settler Colonialism
• In the US, black people are
rendered a class of untouchables,
while white men are raised to the
level of citizens.
• The parting of black families is a
kind of murder.
• So too in South Africa
15. So too in SOUTH AFRICA
A STORY OF THE PLATINUM BELT
• The miners who extract these
minerals live in very poor
conditions, often in informal
settlements near the mine, without
running water or electricity. In 2012,
around 3,000 miners struck for
higher wages and better living
conditions. 34 miners were shot
dead by the South African police.
The Government Commission of
Inquiry reported that the mine
owner, the British company
Lonmin, was responsible for the
massacre, along with the South
African government.
19. From ASIKAQEDI to THELA MANJE
President Mandela said on 29 October 1998,
“The challenge is for all of us to
protect our democratic gains like the
apple of our eye. It is for those who
have the means, to contribute to the
efforts to repair the damage wrought
by the past. It is for those who have
suffered losses of different kinds and
magnitudes to be afforded
reparation, proceeding from the
premise that freedom and dignity are
the real prize that our sacrifices were
meant to attain. Free at last, we are
all masters of our destiny. A better
future depends on all of us lending a
hand - your hand, my hand.”
20. A DREAM DEFERRED BUT A DREAM INSISTENT
ON REALISATION
• WE CANNOT AFFORD TO FAIL
OUR PEOPLE IN THIS
• Archbishop Tutu said earlier this
year:
• “Healing is a process. How we deal
with the truth after its telling defines
the success of the process. And this
is where we have fallen tragically
short. By choosing not to follow
through on the commission’s
recommendations, government not
only compromised the commission’s
contribution to the process, but the
very process itself.”
“To be truly radical is to make
hope possible, rather than
despair convincing.”(Raymond
Williams)
21. AN AGENDA FOR REPARATIONS IN SOUTH
AFRICA: THE DREAM FULFILLED
• Communication as the process of creating shared meaning and
understanding
• Conversation as the process of developing interventions together
• Conservation as the preservation and use of the best from our legacy
• Community as the importance of facilitating coherence around a
shared vision; and
• Connection as the pursuit together of transformative goals.
• Concluding the Unfinished Business
THANK YOU