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An Incomplete Journey towards Repairing South Africa
Marjorie Jobson
Class of 1975
A Beginning: A Campaign to End the Death Penalty in South Africa
Sikhumbuto Memorial to the‘Hanged’ at Freedom Park
The Isivivane
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission: 1996 – 1998
An Incomplete Outcome:Unfinished Business
The failure of justice & the transgenerational transmission of trauma
Reconstructing Societies after Trauma & the Role of Victim Agency
Build public understanding of the causes & consequences of political violence
Build a culture of accountability in place of denial & impunity
Restore human dignity through redress measures
Engaging our histories to developa historical consciousness
Former Home of Chief Lobengula in Fingo Township, Grahamstown
A Khulumani Poster Exhibition subtitled “From the power of black to the power of bling”
The capacity of South Africans to ignore tragedies unless they are directly affected
Developing Critical Thinking Skills
Youth from the comic collective voice their understandings of the reasons for our education failures
Creating Platforms for Participation:The Fingo Festival
Khulumani supports the initiation of a world class festival in Fingo township during the annual National Arts Festivals
Towards Accountability
• A struggle for accountability:
• A new judicial inquest for
Dr Neil Aggett
Being advanced by members of the Neil Aggett Support Group with the coordination of Khulumani Support Group
KSG Database Report 2006
Building an Archive
The Khulumani Apartheid Archive
Mobile survey training 2009
Teaching Data Collection Skills
Analysing Data
Working with story & memory
Remembering the ‘Green Blanket’
Supporting Marikana Widows to Claim their Voices
Connecting with Labour-Sending Areas
Developing collective contributions to community
Facilitating the development of civic competence skills
towards deepening participatory democracy in South Africa.
Promoting Citizen Agency:Supporting Citizen-led Action for Achieving
Socio-Economic Rights
“The struggle today is against poverty” & exclusionThe challenge of supporting people to build sustainable livelihoods through the construction of local living enterprises, defined as “a community of people who implement collaborative and human-scale ways of making a living.”
Reckoning with our experience of the TRC
• The past 20 years have been a 20-year transition that has benefitted beneficiaries of apartheid (white people) and a small layer of the black elite.
• We have not achieved the transformation of our society.
• The major challenges for us remain growing poverty and inequality, a still flagging process of land redistribution, a lack of a genuine social reconciliation with meaningful coexistence and a durable peace.
Raising the Bar: Hope and Renewal in South Africa: Songezo Zibi, Editor, Business Day
• The call for a movement to repair South Africa
• South Africa is a broken society. What will it take to give it a purpose & strength to face an initially difficult future, but one which can have so much reward for future generations.
• The hope is for a renewal characterised by just access to opportunities for all, the equitable distribution of resources & the freedom to succeed in all areas of life.
Help Repair South Africa: #RepairSA
• The only nationwide membership group advocating for justice and redress for survivors and victims of apartheid-era gross human rights violations, as well as their families.
• We also stand up for people who suffer post-apartheid
human rights violations.
• Before we won our democracy, we were part of a struggle to achieve a just society.
• Through that struggle we won our Constitutional Democracy.
• But the struggle for liberation for all who live in South Africa is not yet complete.
When Justice Fails
• Growing citizen disillusionment with failures to secure aspirations of dignity & equality through restitution & redistribution measures.
• Intensification of social problems of poverty, unemployment & inequality (PUI) –48% of population live in households with income less than R500.00 (US$50) per month.
• Failure of transformation – one immoral & inhumane system replaces another –political inefficiency & corruption & an excessively powerful, self-serving economic system orientated to the global economy.
• THE CONSEQUENCES: Failure to address collective trauma through justice remedies usually results in a return to collective violence
Reflections from a Poet
there will be a better time
when time has run out for liars
for those who take and take and take from others,
take forever!
and keep taking for themselves alone
time has run out when we say no!
no more –
No is not a word but an act, remember that - !
Mongane Wally Serote
Conclusion
• There is no force stronger than the collective will of the people to be free
• Citizen-driven, self-determined nationhood with the consent of the governed is important to achieve. This starts in the minds of the people.
• This is a continuing struggle for social justice, full equality, a fair economy, and stable and equitable statehood.
• This is the struggle of Khulumani Support Group