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Verne Harris generated the records that constitute this collection in the period from 1996 to 2002.

They effectively document three areas of his involvement with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). However, five discrete groups of records make up the collection.

First of all, as Deputy-Director: Planning, Coordination and Transformation of the National Archives of South Africa, Harris was the official liaison between the TRC and the National Archives as a function of his portfolio. This responsibility required of him to drive the necessary processes for the transfer of the TRC archive from its various offices to the custody of the National Archives.

The records that document this function include

Proposals for an appropriate documentation classification system

Proposals for management, transfer and control of TRC records

Discussions and proposals relating to the management of the electronic records of the TRC

Discussions with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) relating to the video archives of the TRC

Secondly, in August 1997 the TRC established a Joint Committee to investigate the destruction of records by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and other government civilian intelligence bodies, the former Department of Prison Services and the Security Branch of the South African Police (SAP).

The Joint Committee comprised representatives of the TRC, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the South African Secret Service (SASS), the South African Human Rights Commission and the National Archives. The Joint Committee met to receive written reports, briefings and verbal reports from identified key role-players.

The committee also conducted on-site inspections of records and records management facilities of the various agencies under investigation. Harris represented the National Archives, seconded to that position by the then serving National Archivist, Marie Olivier.

The Joint Committee completed its investigation in March 1998. Apart from the completed reports on the destruction of official records by the bodies under investigation, this group of records includes

The case of Brian Currin vs. the State President and Others in the matter of the unlawful destruction of state records (1993)

Submission by the South African Society of Archivists to the Minister of Justice recommending the investigation of the illegal destruction of state records (1995).

Thirdly, Harris was employed by the TRC in 1998 as an outside researcher to write its report on the destruction of state records by the security establishment. Harris? report ?The Destruction of Records? is included in Volume 1 Chapter 8 of the Final Report of 1998.

He also formulated the recommendations pertaining to the archiving of the Commission's materials and public access to them, as well as to the implementation of archival legislation to prevent future unauthorized and illegal destruction of records.

These recommendations are to be found in Volume 5 Chapter 8 of the Final Report of 1998. The records that document the process of Harris' writing this report include amongst others

Minutes of meetings pertinent to the contents of the report

Newspaper article on the destruction of state records

Statutes and archival (disposal) policies relevant to the report

The final report in various stages of editing.

Harris' concern with making the archives of the TRC as widely accessible as possible is documented in the correspondence on the proposal for the digitization of the TRC archive. The ensuing records constitute the fourth group of records.

Finally, a number of largely unrelated records document the recognition of the TRC-related expertise that Harris had developed during the years that he was involved in TRC processes.

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Amnesty International (AI) was founded in 1961 and is a worldwide movement of approximately one million people engaged in numerous campaigns for the vindication of internationally recognized human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948.

To this end AI undertakes research and embarks on action to prevent and put an end to the violation of human rights worldwide.

The movement attempts to realize its vision by striving for impartiality and independence from any political affiliation.

The records that constitute the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Papers of Amnesty International collection document AI's involvement in the anti-Apartheid struggle over the decades as well as its monitoring of human rights abuses of South African citizens under Apartheid.

This engagement culminates in the Amnesty's active support of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

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Chantelle Wyley started off as an historian, librarian and information scientist, then moved into the development NGO-sector, managed an NGO that specialised in community capacity building, became a facilitator and a Gestalt OD-practitioner, runs international training courses, works as a free-lance consultant, is also an Iyengar yoga practitioner, and recently has ventured into on-line learning and facilitation.

About the article by Merrett, Christopher and Wyley, Chantelle

'Universities and the new censorship: Mzala's Gatshat Buthelezi: chief with a double agenda.' Critical arts 5,4 (1991): 98-115, was an article published by Merrett and Wyley regarding Chief Buthelezi's attempts to get Mzala's book taken off the shelves of university libraries.

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In 1997 Cherry ended her full-time employment with the TRC and worked part-time on a contract basis, mainly to assist with completing the TRC Final Report. She has subsequently written numerous articles and delivered papers on matters relating to the TRC.

Janet Cherry generated these TRC-related records when she was in the employ of the Research Department of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from 1996 to 1998 in the Port Elizabeth Office. Her research focused on human rights violations in the western part of the Eastern Cape Province.

Cherry conducted research with regard to hearings on human rights violations, preparing background documentation for Commissioners and investigations as well as dealing with national research themes of the liberation movements, prisons and torture.

In 1997 Cherry ended her full-time employment with the TRC and worked part-time on a contract basis, mainly to assist with completing the TRC Final Report. She has subsequently written numerous articles and delivered papers on matters relating to the TRC.

Upon completion of her full-time employment with the TRC in December 1997, Cherry copied all her own TRC-related documents to disc and handed these to the TRC together with all original documents and reports which were the property of the TRC.

These records form part of the official TRC archive in the custody of the National Archives and Record Services of South Africa (NARS). Access to the Cherry records in the custody of the National Archives is governed by the Promotion of Access to Information Act No 2 of 2000 (PAIA).

The request for such access is conducted through the Department of Justice. The URL of officials dealing with PAIA requests is located at:wkekana@justice.gov.za, nlouw@justice.gov.za

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The Gilbert Marcus Collection of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission comprises the records of proceedings of the case heard in the High Court of South Africa (Cape of Good Hope Division) in the matter between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) The IFP had objected to findings of the TRC in its Final Report of 1998, findings that implicated the Party and its leader Mangosutho Gatsha Buthelezi in the commission of human rights violations, criminality and conspiracy.

The case was heard in 2000. Marcus was briefed by the Truth Commission to represent it in the case brought against it by the Inkatha Freedom Party.

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As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was constituted in terms of a provision of the Interim Constitution of 1993, there were concerns that the Commission would adopt a gender-neutral position in its enquiry into the occurrence of gross human rights violations in accordance with the principle of equality as entrenched in the Constitution.

This would mean that specific forms of oppression and repression that were directed at women, or could only be directed at women with the desired effect, would not be recognized, and that in consequence a highly skewed and incomplete picture of the gross human rights violations would emerge from this approach.

Therefore in March 1996, immediately prior to the TRC commencing its operations, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg convened a workshop entitled 'Gender and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission'.

The participants were women from all walks of life.

The result of the workshop was an in-depth submission to the TRC, which warned, that by adopting a gender-neutral attitude, the Commission would be falling prey to a basic flaw in the truth-finding process, namely that accepting the premise that abuse and violations of human rights can be gender-neutral.

The TRC took this critique seriously and agreed to CALS' proposal for special women's hearings which were subsequently held in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Prior to the special hearings on women, the TRC also organized two workshops with women's groups and the representatives of the media to brainstorm ways and methods of bringing women into the TRC process.

The two researchers who spearheaded this particular discourse, and put 'gender' squarely onto the agenda of the TRC are Beth Goldblatt, a researcher in the CALS Gender Research Project, and Sheila Meintjies, a lecturer in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Together they prepared a second submission on the situation of women. Meintjies presented the submission at the special hearing on women.

Their publications which form part of the collection document the research conducted for the compilation of the submission to the TRC.

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"Existing in Secret Places: women's testimony in the first five weeks of Public Hearings of the Truth and reconciliation Commission (TRC)" is the title of a paper delivered by Fiona Ross at the conference "Fault Lines. re: membering, re: collecting, re:constructing: A Rejoinder", which was held on 4-5 July 1996 in Cape Town. Ross's paper deals with the broader issue of "Gender and the TRC."

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In 1997 a group of churches in the Johannesburg-Pretoria region came together to discuss how to respond to the challenge of the institution of the TRC. After the publication of the Final Report of the TRC in 1998 the focus of the group turned towards the challenge of reconciliation as it arose from the findings and recommendations of the TRC. In 2000 a group of 60 church persons representing 40 churches formulated and endorsed the document “The Challenge of Reconciliation”. The document and accompanying press release are included.

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The submission of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was presented at the Institutional Hearing: Business and Labour. COSATU’s submission is premised on the conviction that Apartheid was more than a political system of institutionalized racism, but that the true character of the institutionalized racism was, in fact, racial capitalism. Hence in its submission COSATU argues that (white) business was a beneficiary of this system to the extent that it was not in its interest to oppose Apartheid, but indeed actively promoted this system at the expense of the black working classes.

COSATU’s submission dealt in the main with the following three themes:

  1. The history of the black working class

  2. Focus on the mining sector

  3. Problems with the amnesty provisions of the TRC enabling legislation

COSATU’s fundamental argument was verified in a variety of ways by the numerous and diverse submissions made at the Institutional Hearing: Business and Labour. These submissions are in the custody of the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa (NARS).

Access to the records accumulations in the custody of the National Archives is governed by provisions of the Promotion of Access to Information Act No. 2 of 2000 (PAIA).

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David Forbes was on the editorial teams of a number of student publications in the late 1970s and early 1980s and he contributed to other student publications. The collection includes a number of these publications. David Forbes is today a television director / cameramen in South Africa, with numerous international and local awards. He is a Wits Business School graduate. David is currently busy shooting his own documentary on 'The Cradock Four', which is nearly completed. In 2005 he was also shooting hours of serials for the Wits Origins Centre Rock Art Museum.

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