Ndabethwa lilitye: Assumption,
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Authors
Ratele, Kopano
Mpolweni-Zantsi, Nosisi
Krog, Antjie
Issue Date
2007
Type
Article
Language
en
Keywords
TRC , translation , narrative , Gugulethu seven , strangeness
Alternative Title
Abstract
The second week of the first round of hearings of the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission took place in Cape Town. On 2 April 1996 four mothers testified that Security Forces killed their sons
during an incident that became known as the Gugulethu Seven. One of them was Mrs Notrose Nobomvo Konile. Of the four
mothers she testified last and presented a testimony that seemed largely incoherent with very little detail about her son. Using
the original Xhosa testimony the authors try to understand Mrs Konile. This essay focuses exclusively on her description of what
the authors refer to as the “rock-incident”. The essay uses the original narrative with its embedded cultural contexts as well as
a new translation to trace some of the different stages and places where incomprehension had been created