ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how reconciliatory practices have sought inspiration from local geographies and from specific social and cultural practices in order to ensure that attempts at lasting collaboration are drawn from within. It is useful to understand reconciliatory practices here, therefore, as a certain type of work or labour, one that is not always willingly undertaken and one that does not always result in a beneficial outcome but that nevertheless has the capacity to expose the limitations of reconciliation. It seems to us that there is a tension here in the postcolonial context to be seen to be participating in reconciliatory practices is to be part of a shared future that may unwittingly seek to underplay or undermine a certain understanding of the past.
