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A Boring Dystopia
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As a South African I wouldn't recommend it. We essentially allowed all the murderers, torturers and rapists to get off scott free so that "business as usual" - ie, the looting and pillaging of South Africa's mineral resources - wouldn't be disrupted too much.
We literally have gigantic gaps in our history because the Nat regime was allowed to perpetrate one of the largest orgies of evidence destruction in known history while the TRC wasn't even allowed to subpoena people to testify about anything - and now we still sit with a white population that sees no reason to confront what was done in their name and are pretty much still just as white supremacist as their grandparents were.
It's only a solution to the liberal types that want to sell feel-good propaganda and little else.
My GF is Zulu and she's pro T&R so I imagine YMMV.
I can definitely understand your position.
From a layman Canadian where our indigenous people did the same thing it's only as powerful as the weight and teeth it's given.