1. Forgiveness in the New South Africa Films by Darrell Roodt and ThaloMatabane
2. “How do you find these films?” By watching public television and educational programming. By doing pedagogical research in public libraries, as well as university libraries. By listening to the suggestions of students; generally, they watch more films than we do.
3. Forgiveness in South African Literature: Miriam Tlali’sBetween Two Worlds Some key dates: 1955- 65 000 people forcibly removed from Sophiatown in order to transform it to “Triomph” 1964 – Tlali begins writing Between Two Worlds 1979 – Tlali’s novel published as Muriel at Metropolitan 1994 – first multi-racial election in South Africa; Nelson Mandela elected; Tlali’snovelre-releasedwith its intended title ofBetween Two Worlds 2006 – the area that came to be known as “Triomph” officially changed back to Sophiatown
5. Nation-wide Forgiveness In her recent PMLA article “‘I Want to Say: / Forgive Me’: South African Discourse and Forgiveness” Gallagher considers the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process in South Africa which started in 1995, and within which “two thousand victims testified about their experiences of abuse” (303) during the years of Apartheid.
6. Hector Peterson, A Young Student who Died in an Unarmed Protest Against Apartheid
10. Tutu on Forgiveness In a 2001 speech given upon receiving his honorary doctorate of divinity from the University of Toronto, Bishop Desmond Tutu explained that South Africa has chosen “to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation,” wishing to avoid both the severe, retributive justice of the Nuremberg trials and “the other extreme of a blanket amnesty, as happened in General Augusto Pinochet’s Chile. It victimized the victims a second time.”
