1. Hall Ruth & Ntsebeza Lungisile , Introduction, in The Land Question in South Africa: The Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution 2 (Lungisile Ntsebeza & Ruth Hall eds., 2007). See also Kollapen Jody , Keynote Address to the Opening Session of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and International Centre for Transitional Justice Workshop on Enhancing Socio-Economic Justice in Societies in Transition: Case Studies on the African Continent, Cape Town, South Africa (2008).
2. This is probably why it is very important to clarify “transition” especially in the context of “developing societies.” Some of the questions may be: “What constitutes a ‘transition'? Is the transition marked simply by the political choice to use of the rhetoric of justice and reconciliation, even in a context of minimum breach in the past, perhaps in order to ‘create the democratic possibility to re-imagine the specific paths and goals of democratization'? Can a country have a succession of transitions and apply transitional justice measures each time? Are these measures appropriate even in contexts of weakly institutionalized states without a history of Western-style democratic tradition”? See Bosire, supra note 31, at 8.