ENGL 2P53 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ingrid De Kok

• School: Brock University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2P53
• Professor: Susan Spearey

Document Summary

Engl 2p53 - ingrid de kok: a room full of questions. Death and the maiden: south africa wanted to create a public process to investigate gross violation of human rights under the apartheid regime, three part structure: Human rights violations (hrv) hearings first, to give a voice to. Victims of human rights abuses and their survivors. Amnesty hearings for perpetrators of human rights violations to judge whether they should be forgiven for past deeds. Reparations committee to compensate victims financially and/or symbolically for harm suffered. Reparations committee: found ways of compensating victims wheelcharis, medical. The human rights violation hearings: symbolic compensation name a street or school after the person, clip: Lot"s of anger and loss. and they were scarred. Some called it crying commissions who were often white or pro-apartheid who just didn"t want to face what they did. This gave them a chance to give comfort to others and bond.