ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns about repeated failure to document the role young people play in wars or to describe their action and practice during conflict. It is a contribution to the critique of a system of knowing or causing to know. The chapter examines one aspect of the commission's account of the South African war for liberation between 1960 and 1994. It looks at how casualties are listed, classified, and classed as civilian and soldier. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was an extraordinary experiment, part of a rash of similar attempts in the twentieth century to end conflict. Perhaps its main contribution is to have documented the depth and breadth of terror and destruction under apartheid. The chapter therefore concerns that statements and testimonies of deponents who were defined as victims in terms of legislation. It ends with a section on the consequences for the young of apartheid and gross human rights violations.
