Restitution cannot stand as an independent idea on its own. It belongs together with other words like justice, reconciliation, transformational development and peace building. It has a personal, communal, institutional and national component to it.
Restitution can offer a strategy as to how we can reduce the structural harms of our past. ...
Restitution and Business Dialogue Facilitator Guide
INTRODUCTION The Restitution Foundation seeks to have conversation with the business community on how to advance restitution and justice in South Africa. The Foundation has had focus groups before to discuss the concept of restitution. The Foundation would like to engage the broader business ...
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS: TRC RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE FAITH COMMUNITY HEALING
In order to help bring healing to the many in our country who are hurting, the Commission recommended that: • Religious communities organise ceremonies designed to enable people to acknowledge their different levels of involvement in the human rights violations of ...
PRACTICAL RESTITUTION SUGGESTIONS
From Another Country: Social Restitution
Working alongside government and other institutions
Infrastructure and services
• Create a restitution tax to eradicate the bucket toilet system
• Upgrade townships through cross-subsiding the upkeep of the suburbs
• Accountability to end corruption
Education
• ...
An illustration that may help us better understand restitution is that of a stolen bicycle. Imagine that a man’s bicycle is stolen, which means he now has no transport and cannot get to work, and he loses his job. Without his job, he cannot educate his children or support his family. Perhaps he used that bicycle to run errands for the homebound elderly ...
Restitution is a complex term that is often misunderstood and evokes emotion from most South Africans, whether it be relief and hope, or fear and anger. Some have mistakenly referred to it as retribution; others think it is about revenge. We often hear it used in legal terms. For example, a man who has stolen R1000 is ordered to make compensation ...
The recent public outcries on racist behaviour and the radical approaches to enforce social justice are but a few examples that South Africa’s painful history is still experienced in the present. More than three centuries of racist colonial and apartheid rule caused enormous suffering and human rights abuse to black South Africans. The same racist ...
