What is it about?
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa and the kinds of witnessing and storytelling it introduced to the South African public. How such witnessing techniques have been archived and also analysed by scholars
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Why is it important?
Black Women's agency in the archive
Perspectives
This work is part of a larger project that I am working on that looks at how Black women participated in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa and how their participation has come to be understood by scholars
Nontsasa Nako
University of Johannesburg
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This page is a summary of: The Live Witness in the Archive: Analysing Live Witness Testimony in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Archival Project, Australian Feminist Studies, April 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2019.1644604.
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