Unfinished Business: Reconciling the Apartheid Reparation Litigation with South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission‪.‬

I. INTRODUCTION In 1993, having spent the entirety of their adult lives fighting South Africa's apartheid regime, Nelson Mandela and the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) were presented with an uneasy proposition. In exchange for conditional grants of amnesty for many of the most ruthless perpetrators of apartheid aggression, the white ruling National Party (NP) would agree to a power sharing arrangement with the ANC--the first step towards fully democratic elections in a country with more than seventy percent black voters. The ANC's decision, and the course that South Africa has charted since, is now well known. Rather than attempt to satiate any desires for retribution, South Africa would pursue a course of reconciliation. Whites, as well as blacks, would be welcome to remain, and to participate in the founding of a fully inclusive new democracy--a "rainbow nation." (1)