The Impossible Machine: A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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/ 371 / Index Note to readers: Unless otherwise specified, the place or jurisdiction at issue is South Africa. A Human Being Died That Night (Gobodo-­ Madikizela), 240 Adderley, Charles Bowyer, 146–­ 48 African Mineworkers Strike of 1920, 315n29 African National Congress (ANC) blanket amnesty, 28–­ 29 on the Durban Riots Commission, 176 Indemnity Act of 1990, 25 Postscript interpretation, 39 SACP and, 194 Afrikaner Rebellion of 1914, 264n10 Ahmad, Eqbal, 255, 260n17 Alien Tort Claims Act, 123 Amahlubi Rebellion, 46 amnesty AZAPO et al., 40–­45 defined in Amnesty Bill, 34–­ 36 definitions, 36–­38 definitions considered, 24 distinguished from indemnity, 104 indemnity and, 9–­ 10, 30–­ 32, 35–­ 37 individual and blanket, 25 in international law, 42–­ 43 in Latin America, 28 Omar’s distinction, 33–­ 34 in postwar Europe, 23–­ 25 transitional justice and genealogy compared, 251–­52 ubuntu and, 243 verb form, 40 Amnesty Bill of 1994, 28, 33–­ 36 Amnesty Committee of the TRC, 9–­ 11 bona fide test, 108–­ 9 full disclosure test, 9, 102, 109–­ 14 indemnity in, 100 Norgaard Principles, 105–­ 7 political objective test, 101–­ 2 proportionality principle, 106–­ 9 self-­ exculpation in, 126 ANC. See African National Congress ANC Youth League, 242 Anghie, Anthony, 8 apartheid crime against humanity, 200–­ 205 rule of law, 277n9 theatrical analysis, 208–­ 14 apartheid state evidence of decline, 183–­ 84 guilt by demography, 203 legacy, 299n69 and the person, 222–­ 23 in the TRC Report, 200–­202 Arendt, Hannah, 149, 336n80 Argentina, 29, 341n12 Aristotle, 245, 334n51 Aronson, Theo, 85 Ashforth, Adam, 132, 142–­ 43 Asmal, Kader on amnesty and truth, 40 on apartheid, 201 calls for a Truth Commission, 16–­ 17 on catharsis, 197–­ 99 on colonialism, 341n16 on historical catharsis, 207–­ 8 on indemnity under apartheid, 98 on interregnum, 324n8 on the TRC, 193–­ 94, 325n30 on the TRC’s evenhandedness, 192 on transitional justice, 340n2 on victim-­ centered process, 131 Asmal, Louise, 197, 207–­ 8 Austin, John, 60–­ 61 AZAPO et al. v. President of the Republic of South Africa et al., 40–­ 45, 117–­ 18, 275n121 372 / Index Bacon, Francis, 135–­ 36 balance. See evenhandedness Bambatha Rebellion of 1906, 293n93, 311n16 Bantu, 329n12 Bantustan system, 329n12 Basson, Dean, 233–­ 37, 239 Beccaria, Cesare, 332n44 Bentham, Jeremy, 142 Berman, Aaron, 73 Bhargava, Anurima, 106 Bildungsroman, 219–­ 20, 334n49 biopower, 12–­13 Bisho Massacre of 1992, 47, 83 Bizos, George, 112–­ 14 Blackstone, William, 52 blame avoided, 164–­ 67, 174–­ 83 passim, 205, 314n25, 316n30, 316n32. See also evenhandedness blanket amnesty, 25, 27–­ 29 Bodin, Jean, 334n55 Boer War, 103 bona fide test, 59, 73–­ 83 passim, 108–­9. See also good faith requirement Bondelzwart Commission of 1923 blame avoided, 165–­ 67, 314n25, 315n29 functions, 171 native reserves, 311n17 psychology in, 168–­ 70 Bondelzwart Massacre, 168, 186 Bondelzwart Rebellion, 46 Boraine, Alex, 242 Botha, Louis, 264n10 boycotted commissions, 172–­ 74 Bundy, Colin, 96 burden of proof, 79–­ 81, 110–­ 11 Bureau of State Security, 96 Buxton, Charles, 143–­ 44 Cape Colonial Commission upon Native Laws and Customs of 1883, 158 Cape Colony indemnity acts, 46 capital punishment, 223–­ 24, 332n44 Cardwell, Edward, 147–­ 48, 318n53 cartoon, 1–­ 3, 18 casus necessitas under colonial law, 81 criteria, 151 defined, 107 indemnity and, 65, 77–­ 79, 155 perspectives on, 125–­ 26 catharsis Asmal’s view, 197–­ 99, 207–­ 8 Gramsci’s view, 17, 193–­ 96 historical definition, 198–­ 99 reconciliation and, 196–­ 200 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 5–­ 6, 215 Chanock, Martin on the basis of apartheid, 50–­ 51 on Dicey, 47 on indemnity, 46 on martial law, 273n110 on paramilitary police, 94 on postapartheid law, 190, 252 Chaskalson, Matthew, 84, 274n114 Chile, 29, 340n12 Cicero’s maxim, 18, 224–­ 29, 233–­ 39, 245 Cillié, Petrus Malan, 181 Cillié Commission of 1979, 172, 178, 181–­ 87. See also Soweto Uprising of 1976 citizens distinguished from native subjects, 92–­97 Civil Cooperation Bureau, 96, 112 Coertze, L. I., 287n22 Coetsee, H. J., 77 Coetzee, Greig, 17, 208 Coleridge, B., 170 colonialism dependent on indemnity, 81 Eurocentrism and, 5–­ 6 indemnity under, 92 philology, 216 postcolonial issues, 254–­ 55 TRC and, 119–­ 24 colonialism of a special type (CST), 194–­ 95 colony and racism, 336n80 Comaroff, J. and J., 341n15 coming-­of-­age narrative, 219–­20 Commercial Workers Union, 311n17 Commission of Inquiry into the Condition and Treatment of Natives in Southern Africa of 1823–­ 1835, 158 Commission of Inquiry into the Rand Riots, 317n42 Commission of Inquiry into the Riots in Belfast, 303n43 Commission of Inquiry into the Riots...