ABSTRACT
This chapter shifts attention from alternative public spheres to the repair of relationships, and specifically community and economic relationships. It does so because these are the structural relationships, relatively unexamined and untouched by the TRC process, which still undermine the project of reconciliation at all levels of South African society.1 As such they lie at the heart of what I will term the recovery and reimagining of the everyday. At the outset this agenda requires a three-pronged argument: defining the everyday, making the case for a focus on relationships, and situating reconciliation within post-conflict repair and reconstruction.
