1. Why does Tutu believe that the legacy of apartheid will extend far beyond its practice?
2. What kinds of events does Tutu describe to illustrate the crimes of the apartheid regime? Who does he say is responsible for the violence that he cites?
3. What does Tutu see as the flaw in the Nuremberg trials that the Allies conducted after World War 11? Why does he say the Nuremberg model would not have worked in South Africa?
4. Why did Tutu feel that it was important to reject the "let bygones be bygones" approach that would have extended blanket amnesty to anybody, on either side, involved in atrocities during the prior regime?
5 What is the point of the play Death and the Maiden, by Ariel Dorfman, as Tutu sees it? Why do you think that the woman in the play lets her former torturer go free?
6 How does Tutu translate the African term ubuntu? Why is this concept important to his argument?
MAKING CONNECTIONS
1. How does Tutu's understanding of democracy compare to that of Aung San Suu Kyi (P. 442)? How are their views shaped by their religious beliefs?
2. Compare the system of apartheid described by Desmond Tutu with the American system of segregation described by Martin Luther King Jr. in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (p. 425). How does each writer respond to the political aspect of oppression?
3. Compare the way that Tutu uses the native African concept of ubuntu with the way Toni Morrison discusses African views of rhetoric and storytelling in her Nobel lecture (p. 217).
WRITING ABOUT THE TEXT
1. Write an essay that applies the concept of synthesis, as described by Hegel (p. 668), to Tutu's rejection of both the Nuremberg model of justice and "national amnesia." How might Tutu's solution be considered a synthesis of the other two ways that society has used to address horrible crimes committed by the state?
2. Write an essay in which you argue that the amnesty offered by the Truth and Recon¬ciliation Committee in South Africa is incompatible with a belief in justice. Conduct additional research into the process that Tutu describes.
3. Read or watch the play Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (a film version starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley is widely available). Use this play as the basis for an argument about either the value of a tribunal such as the Truth and Reconcilition Commission or the problems that prevent such a tribunal from
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