Unsettling Apologies

Melanie Judge works with leading civil society organisations and multilateral institutions on strategy, policy and research for sexual and gender rights in Africa and is Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town.Dee Smythe is Professor of Public Law and Director of the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town as well as a member of the Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento sobre Direito e Sociedade (CEDIS) at the Nova University of Lisbon School of Law.

• 1. The Power of Apology - Melanie Judge and Dee Smythe2. We Speak in the Shadow of the Tongues They Took - Siphokazi Jonas3. Can an Apology Ever Be Enough for Crimes of the Past? - Yasmin Sooka4. In Pursuit of Harmony: What is the Value of a Court-Ordered Apology? - Sindiso Mnisi Weeks5. Penance and Punishment: Apology as a Remedy for Hate Speech - Nurina Ally and Kerry Williams6. On Not Apologising: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the TRC Hearing into the Mandela United Football Club - Shireen Hassim7. (Mis)Recognitions in the Racial Apology: Reading the Racist Event and its Fallouts - Nkululeko Nkomo and Peace Kiguwa8. Apology as a Pathway out of White Unknowing - Christi van der Westhuizen9. (Re)Collections: Her Sorry, Never Mine - Diane Jefthas10. Beyond Words: Apologies and Compensation in Sexual Off ences - Leila Khan and Dee Smythe11. ‘She Told Me to Stop Making a Fuss’: Undignified Treatment, Medical Negligence Claims, and Desires for Apology - Omowamiwa Kolawole12. Unicorn Sightings: The Corporate Moral Apology in South Africa - Tracey Davies13. In Black and White: The Hollow Apology of Racialised State Compensation to Freehold Landowners - Thuto Thipe14. On Apology and the Failure of Shame in the TRC - Jaco Barnard-Naudé15. Amnesty, Amnesia, and Remembrance: Self-Reflections on a 23-Year-Old Justification - Heinz Klug