ABSTRACT
This chapter explains a moral forgetfulness which undermines individual or collective efforts to respond constructively to gross injustices or being deeply harmed. To appreciate the destructive potential of this moral forgetfulness and to highlight the creative potential of its opposite, which might be termed inclusive moral remembrance, it reflects here on an underlying moral dynamic of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The vital point highlighted by Snyman is that for Hobhouse the human suffering of these Boer women had a universal significance beyond narrow ethnic borders. Amy's political commitment and her South African friends helped her parents to understand the context within which their daughter was killed. The difficulties of the situations confronted by the people mentioned above draws attention to a second reason why their extraordinary deeds may legitimately be used to articulate and promote inclusive remembrance of the admirable post-apartheid South Africa.
