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Country Of My Skull Paperback – 4 Nov. 1999

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The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission to establish a picture of the gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1993. It was to seek the truth and make it known to the public and to prevent these brutal events ever happening again. From 1996 and over the following two years South Africans were exposed almost daily to revelations about their traumatic past. Antije Krog's full account of the Commission's work using the testimonies of the oppressed and oppressors alike is a harrowing and haunting book in which the voices of ordinary people shape the course of history.

WINNER OF SOUTH AFRICA'S SUNDAY TIMES ALAN PATON AWARD

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464 pages
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English
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Vintage
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4 Nov. 1999
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12.9 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm
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0099289792
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978-0099289791
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One of the best books of the year ― The Economist

No one will tell us more about the struggle for the Afrikaner's soul; for this book, like the events it reports, is an act of redemption ― Daily Telegraph

Krog's account of the hearings, which recorded 20,000 statements from victims and nearly 8,000 applications for amnesty, is vivid and impassioned ― Mail on Sunday

Whatever it is that makes a major lasting work of non-fiction, it is here ― Observer

Her accounts are so powerful, her resilience, humour and compassion so engaging...to have written this book is heroic ― Sunday Times

About the Author

Antjie Krog was born in 1952 in Kroonstad, a town in the Free State province of South Africa. She has published eight volumes of poetry, several of which have been translated into European languages and have won international prizes.

Reporting as Antjie Samuel, the author and her SABC radio team received the Pringle Award for excellence in journalism for reporting on the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission. Krog also won the Foreign Correspondents' Award for outstanding journalism for her articles on the Truth Commission. She went on to become parliamentary editor for SABC radio in 1997 and has since been appointed as an Extraordinary Professor in the Arts Faculty at the University of the Western Cape.

Antjie Krog is married and is the mother of four children.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (4 Nov. 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099289792
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099289791
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 207,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 78 in History of Southern Africa
- 84 in History of South Africa
- 179 in African Politics

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Matt

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 April 2020

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An honest review of the Apartheid struggle and the painstaking truth and reconciliation process. Not easy reading but profoundly moving.

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kriss

Beautifully written account of the Truth and Reconcilaition Commission

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 30 July 2013

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I thought I remembered those days pretty well but this book has all the insider information and politicking that didn't always get into the international press. Antjie Krog uses spectacular prose to describe the process of forming the Commission and its duration, how it struggled to bring everyone on board and how it had to define and re-define its objectives in the light of obstacles as they arose. An incredibly powerful account of a country trying to come to terms with its past in order to move forward into an inclusive future and the testimonies of the oppressors and oppressed who helped to shape its history.

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Mike Dearing

A "must read" to understand better about the TRC

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 16 March 2017

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Antjie Krog bares her soul with this account of reporting on the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission. She shares thoughts from other thinkers and comparison with similar investigations in other countries. As she says herself, it's her version of the truth, but nonetheless powerful.
Prerequisites for reconciliation are acknowledgement of truth and forgiveness in the spirit of moving on.

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Robert Leslie

Truth and reconciliation, South African style

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 December 2013

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This book shows how South Africans reacted to hate and fear ,and how the truth and reconciliation process helped to heal the nation.It describes incidents which are horrific as well as some which are amusing. It also describes members of the commission and reports reacted to and coped with trauma of the witness. I must declare an interest I grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid years.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 October 2014

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Such an extraordinary book, like nothing else. Antje lets us into the soul of the Afrikaner.

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Sello Kekana

truth and reconciliation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 22 February 2010

history always has important lesson for us to learn from,whether we cease the moment that is entirely another matter,just after euphoria of post apartheid,south africa had to go thru tear jerking experience of `truth and reconciliation`
to some it was unwelcomed,after reading `country of my skull` i realise,south africa as a nation needed to heal,from atrocities inflicted by apartheid.
both side of war,white and black can always claim,just war or doing my duties,in both cases lives were lost and that robbed some of fathers,mothers and some even their sanity.as i read the book,since i watched part of televised `truth and reconciliation on the tv`,at times i was reduced to tears.not at political level
but at personal one ,i felt pain,some relatives went thru listening to the testimonies of perpetrators,and shed a tear reading about victims
although this book is sort of reporting not easy at times,but it is well planned,and easy to follow, i salute Antjie Krog,for reporting without prejudise and opening our eyes,yet be moved herself,some writers tries to detach,we need bit of feeling

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K. Hallam

Hard-hitting but can be confusing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 May 2011

This account of the Truth and Reconciliation hearings, and thus South Africa's recent past, brings tears to the eyes in places and at times, I had to close the book to try and absorb the magnitude of the information being relayed by victims and perpetrators. Running alongside these testimonies are the wise and forever positive words of Tutu, but also the author's own poetic and philosophical exploration of the issues raised. The latter were a bit of a sticking point for me; her story seemed quite disjointed and obscure, sometimes completely confusing. But that aside, I was gripped and it's a hard-hitting account.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 August 2009

If your foriegn to South Africa, but interested in it's history, especially recent, then you'll find this book fasinating as I did. Superbly complied, with the odd deviation of tangents which confuse you sometimes. Sometimes very sad, but an eye opening chapter into the history of the country who's history has changed so dramatically in recents decades. A must read

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