Dare We Hope?

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Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. Dare We Hope?

Foreword

REMEMBRANCE AND RECONCILIATION

1. Facing the truth in South Africa

2. The roots of Afrikaner rage

3. The TRC: unfinished business

4. The politics of revenge will fail

5. We must restore the human spirit

6. What we can learn from Nieuwoudt and De Kock

7. The power of forgiveness

8. The language of forgiveness

9. A wounded nation

10. Towards an anatomy of violence

11. Rwanda draws strength from its pain

12. What we must remember

13. Apologies aren’t enough

DILEMMAS OF LEADERSHIP AND MORALITY

14. HIV/AIDS and the government’s greatest crime

15. Unearthing private skeletons is another form of rape

16. What has happened to the ANC’s morality?

17. Abuse of power through silencing dialogue

18. Zuma should lead instead of spreading fear

19. Not all is well with Zuma’s soul

20. Zuma has corrupted the soul of South Africa

21. ANC’s ‘treason’ cry a repressive apartheid tactic

22. The bar is too high for SA’s inept leaders

23. The erosion of morality in government

SEEDS OF DISCONTENT

24. Counting the costs of a nation in the making

25. Crisis calls for leaders with moral courage

26. The dream that can no longer be deferred

RACE, RACISM AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

27. America’s silence about the past

28. The subtleties of bigotry

29. Onwards (or backwards) into the 21st century

30. Affirmative action: We need nuanced debate

31. We need to learn how it is for others

WOMEN AND MALE POWER

32. Black male chauvinists

33. When choice is not an option

34. The tears of Sierra Leone

35. Daughter of Africa, go to rest in peace

36. Keeping the spirit of 1956 alive

Endnotes

Acknowledgements

About the author

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Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Nelson Mandela, 10 April 1993

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The TRC allowed some victims and survivors to encounter their perpetrators in ways that would not have been possible in a court of law. Here lies one of its successes: the requests for forgiveness made by some perpetrators, and the granting of forgiveness by victims and survivors who are the primary generation of sufferers of atrocities, are unprecedented in the history of atrocities in the 20th century. Its greatest success is the fact that South Africa has not plunged into a spiral of violence and revenge.

After the British, there was another enemy. De Klerk apologised to South Africans who were oppressed by apartheid laws, ‘in a spirit of true repentance’. Yet the ghosts of the past have not been laid to rest, at least not completely. The dialogue that was begun by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission must continue in order to forge and strengthen a spirit of compromise and tolerance. Acknowledging the loss that Afrikaners feel would be a start.

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