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Title Visual technologies and the shaping of public memory of disappeared persons in Cape Town (1960-1990)
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8992
Date 2021
Author(s) Rahman, Ziyaad
Contributor(s) Hayes, Patricia
Abstract Masters of Art - The starting point of this thesis is the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Missing Person's Task Team (MPTT), two instruments of the post-apartheid government, both of which have directly attended to the disappeared dead. The disappeared dead are defined in this thesis as persons abducted and subject to enforced disappearances, as well as those killed in other political circumstances whose bodies were buried by the apartheid state, in some cases as unnamed paupers, thus denying families the opportunity to bury and mourn according to familial or cultural norms. Today the MPTT still seeks to locate the gravesites of the disappeared dead, to exhume, identify and to return the mortal remains to their families.
Subject(s) Visual technologies; Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); Missing Person's Task Team (MPTT); Cape Town; Post-apartheid government
Language en
Publisher University of the Western Cape
Format application/pdf
Rights University of the Western Cape
Repository Cape Town - Theses and Dissertations, University of Western Cape
Added to C-A: 2022-05-11;10:51:12