Nahla Valji worked at the Centre for Human Rights, Pretoria, and is now at the centre for the study of violence and reconciliation, where she was a researcher in its Race and Reconciliation Project. She is also completing an MA alongside a joint diploma in Refugee and Migration Studies from York University, Toronto.

Recent articles

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa has been widely praised as a crucial mechanism of reconciliation in the post-apartheid era. But has its reputation been gained at the cost of a collective evasion? Recent lawsuits against US companies allegedly supportive of apartheid highlight South Africa’s still-open wounds, and suggest that ‘reconciliation’ is intimately linked to ‘reparation’ – and imply that without the latter, South Africa can find neither justice nor closure.