The creation of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was based on the general adoption of the concept of “post-conflict justice.” This apparently innocuous chronological description of the practice in fact brought about fundamental adjustments in the way the apartheid past would be represented by the TRC. A new discourse of conflict and political equilibrium replaced the age-old conception of apartheid as the oppression and dispossession of the black majority. From this perspective, “doing justice” would mean coping with the aftermath of a near civil war rather than dealing with state criminals and terrorists.