¿Arrepentimiento? ¿Justificación? ¿Voces perdidas? Luces y sombras de los testimonios de los perpetradores en la Sudáfrica post-apartheid

Marisa Pineau; Celina Flores

doi:10.5565/rev/rubrica.112

Regret? Justification? Lost voices? Lights and shadows in post-apartheid perpetrators testimony in South Africa

Authors

Marisa Pineau Universidad de Buenos Aires https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6902-9966
Celina Flores Universidad de Buenos Aires https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2238-1313

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Abstract

The experience of South Africa's political transition from apartheid to multi-party democracy in the early years of the 1990s regime has been seen as a successful model of peaceful transition; especially relevant was its approach to the serious violations of human rights in the recent past. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission that was created for this purpose and worked between 1996 and 2001 was the central institution in this process. In this paper, we discuss in depth some miraculous solutions to South Africa's transition from the discourse analysis of some of the perpetrators. The scope of the perpetrator term in the South African context is explained, followed by a review of public and private spaces in which these voices began to express to finally see what kind of statement they made over the past staged. We believe that the development of these research lines will convey a better idea of that actual situation, reviving some speeches that highlight the success of the experience, especially those recreated in the field of transitional justice.

Keywords

South Africa, Transitional Justice, Executioners

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Author Biographies

Marisa Pineau, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Marisa Pineau has a Bachelor degree in History from Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a Master degree on African Studies from El Colegio de México (México). At present she is Professor at the History Department and coordinates the Interdisciplinary Section on Asian and African Studies at Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Celina Flores, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Celina Flores has a Bachelor degree in History from the University of Buenos Aires , and a pos-graduate degree on International Human Rights Law at the same university . He currently serves as Archives Coordinator in Memoria Abierta and is a first assistant of the subject " History of Colonization and Decolonization " at the University of Buenos Aires.