Book review: Antje du Bois-Pedain, Transitional Amnesty in South Africa ; François du Bois and Antje du Bois-Pedain (eds), Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Two recent books contribute to the cross-disciplinary literature on transitional justice, both taking South Africa – the simultaneously path-breaking and paradigmatic case – as their focus. It is not, now, easy to make an original contribution to this field. Much of the scholarly work conducted in its name has, arguably, already exhausted its limits, moving in a short time from laudatory mode to one rightly critical of what is now a veritable ‘reconciliation industry’ in scholarship and practice.