Coming to terms
Subtitle: South Africa's search for truth
By: Martin Meredith ; with a foreword and afterword by Tina Rosenberg.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781891620331
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Apartheid -- South Africa; Human rights -- South Africa
Description: "In 1994, the first democratic elections ever were held in South Africa. New President Nelson Mandela was faced with the enormous task of reinventing South Africa as a democracy and delivering to an impatient electorate the economic and social change he had promised."--BOOK JACKET.

"Coming to Terms is a consideration of a country's attempt to put a troubled history behind it and reach a new stage of development. Martin Meredith takes an unprecedented look at the moral and political issues that shaped the Truth Commission, at the effect of the commission's hearings on a fragile democracy, and at the surprising and often horrifying information the commission hearings unearthed, both about particular crimes and about the nature and structure of apartheid."--BOOK JACKET.

"The only book to offer a complete and even-handed account of the work and the moral issues raised by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Coming to Terms is essential reading for anyone interested in South Africa, human rights, or the evolution of democracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The widows' testimony; title: Reconstructing the past; title: Vlakplaas; title: Prime evil; title: Chains of command; title: Room 619; title: Operation Marion; title: In police custody; title: Foreign ventures; title: Race poison; title: The security establishment; title: The tale of two presidents; title: In the name of liberation; title: The trial of Winnie Mandela; title: Operation Great Storm; title: Findings; title: In the fullness of time; title: Afterword : Confronting the painful past / Tina Rosenberg