ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the dangerous confusion' that developed between a religious, interpersonal version of reconciliation that focuses on individual reconciliation, and a political, national version of reconciliation, that focuses on reconciling all of South Africa. It outline the role that religion played in defining and conceptualising reconciliation in the TRC, particularly the emergence of the two streams of reconciliation, namely the religious-moral and legal-political. Apartheid had ruptured the relationship between whites and blacks, the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa had to entail the restoration of a moral human community. If truth-telling was supposed to act as a means of including all South Africans in a shared narrative, then reconciliation should be understood more properly as a moral process that restores relationships and fosters the moral community that was broken with apartheid. Omar outlined the movement within South Africa, to create a human rights culture and to deal with the past through a truth commission.
