What is it about?
This essay focuses on a series of photographs taken by Jillian Edelstein at the time of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings held after the end of apartheid. At the centre of the essay is the story of Siphiwo Mthimkulu, who was murdered by the security police, and the fact that those responsible for his murder lied at the TRC hearings about what transpired.
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Why is it important?
This essay makes an argument for engaging with the stories told at the Truth and Reconciliation commission hearings and for thinking about what cannot be reconciled in the aftermath of apartheid.
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This page is a summary of: Photography, Apartheid, and the “Road to Reconciliation”, Transition, January 2012, Indiana University Press,
DOI: 10.2979/transition.107.79.
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