Undine Whande be based on rights realized, we turn a blind eye to the phenomenon of migration and people’s movements across borders on the continent. While many are victims of displacement due to violence, there are also age-old circular migration routes for purposes of trade. The nation-state does not provide the kind of protection that would be needed for women who cross borders regularly and often illegally to fend for their families. The South African nation has become one of xenophobia and exclusion, as truth, reconciliation and rights apply to citizens or those deemed worthy of being part of the formal system, where one has access to make those rights real in any form. In South Africa there was hope that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission would be a kind of ‘silver bullet’, a once-and-for-all, fix-all cure to neatly bag 350 years of brutal colonial conquest and to heal the consequences of nearly fifty years of an institutionalized crime against humanity called apartheid. We thought some­how that we could put it in the bag in the name of humanity, in the name of Steve Biko’s quest for a more human face, in the name of Madiba’s twenty-seven years in prison and Tutu’s extraordinary kindness and compassion. It was no magic bullet. We thought the pain would go away. It has not. We are divided, hurt, angry, furious, shameful, guilt-ridden, and as violent, not least to ourselves. Our institutions are fragile because they can only be as resilient as our people are healed and at peace in their own hearts and from there with each other. We are not at peace in South Africa. When 500 young men die every six months in an area called Nyanga Crossroads in Cape Town, what kind of peace is that? Those are more deaths than counted in Afghanistan over such a period. We are at war and in denial. Graça Machel was calling for a second TRC this week. She asked that South Africa consider that the need for an ongoing national dialogue has not ended, and that such a dialogue is intimately interwoven with the processes of the ongoing engagement with the multiple truths and perceptions of the past. Why would we need a second TRC? What can a national conversation about what happened achieve when structures remain unchanged? Is it really time for talking in the wake of disasters such as Lonmin? But perhaps the brutal killing of the thirty-four mine workers was exactly not that, not a disaster but a trajectory coming full circle. What is happening? How do we make sense? Suddenly every­ body is speaking of the collective trauma and the denial we are in. What do we need to do now? We may be at war and in denial but South Africans are also 14 International Conference on Transitional Justice, Zimbabwe