Burning the (Climbing) Ropes of Apartheid
My second post is an article that documents the attempt by the Mountain Club of South Africa to apologize for its discriminatory policies during apartheid.
But apologizing in post-apartheid South Africa is not nearly as simple as it seems. The article features a number of interviews with climbers and analyzes the apology through the lens of the latest theories of reconciliation in countries suffering from mass trauma.
I wrote the piece while enrolled in the program in Justice & Transformation at the University of Cape Town. Special thanks to Tinie Versfeld, Evelyn Terreblanche, Amanda Lucey, and the members of the Mountain Club of South Africa for their assistance.
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Filed under: Uncategorized on March 8th, 2008
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