In 1998, Speak Out on Poverty held hearings across South Africa shortly after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) completed eighteen months of highly publicized, nationwide hearings at which victims testified. Speak Out challenged the TRC's focus on overt political violations, seen to occlude forms of structural violence central to apartheid's policy and practice, as well as longer legacies of colonialism. Reading Speak Out alongside the TRC puts pressure on supposed differences between official truth commissions or tribunals and those run by civil society. Discussing Speak Out in relation to the TRC signaled more than a set of comparisons. In a time of transition, Speak Out spoke from within and against the noise of the TRC. It aimed to make poverty and inequality the nation's priority rather than reconciliation, or at least to challenge notions of reconciliation that did not have inequity and poverty at its center. This intention failed to come to fruition, and Speak Out seemed paradoxically inaudible in public debate. In exploring this conundrum, this article considers particular strategic and organizational choices by Speak Out. These shaped the discursive terrain of operations and subjectivities in ways that unintentionally enabled inaudibility and constrained the organizers’ transformative intentions.

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大声疾呼：种族隔离后的南非，聆讯，听不清和公民身份

1998年，真相与和解委员会（TRC）完成了为期18个月的全国范围内广受关注的听证会，受害者在此作证后不久，在南非举行了“大声疾呼”听证会。“大声疾呼”对真相与和解委员会的重点是公开的政治侵犯提出了挑战，这种侵犯被视为掩盖了种族隔离政策和实践的核心结构性暴力形式，以及殖民主义的较长遗产。与真相与和解委员会一起阅读《大声疾呼》给官方的真相委员会或法庭与民间社会管理的法庭之间的假定差异施加了压力。讨论与TRC相关的“大声疾呼”不只是一组比较。在过渡时期，“说出来”是在内部和反对TRC的声音时讲话。它旨在使贫穷和不平等成为国家的优先事项，而不是和解，或至少是挑战以不平等和贫穷为中心的和解概念。这种意图未能实现，在公共辩论中，大声疾呼似乎是矛盾的。在探索这个难题时，本文考虑了“说出来”的特定战略和组织选择。这些以无意识地导致听不清并限制组织者的变革意图的方式塑造了操作和主观的话语地形。