Uncertain Borders: The TRC and the unmaking of public myths

<p>The response by historically minded scholars mainly within South Africa work and report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was deeply This is perhaps unsurprising, given the nature of the TRC's mandate and Its engagement with issues of truth, its focus on the past, its concern with identity and political conflict, and the representation thereof, to name but all issues of research and contestation within the academy itself. Further, that of the work of the TRC not only happened within a public space but and continuously publicised, especially in the first three years of its encouraged debate and discussion. In many respects, it was precisely the nature of the enterprise that often painfully revealed the TRC's many shortcomings and failures.</p>