What is Social Justice and how feasible is it in contempory South Africa?

Social Justice is that tenet, or notion of our being, which we as civilized humans have come to embrace as the vehicle by which we define our own order in society today. This very notion has been relevant in contempory South Africa, due to our past and the previous Apartheid Regime. Since justice is almost a science in the form of the Naturalist approach to the study of law, it would be in our best interests to define the very notion of justice itself and how this applies on a macro social level. In relating the concept of social justice and it feasibility in contempory South Africa, perhaps it would be in our best interests to undertake a case study of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The TRC has come to embody a great deal of things to a great deal of people in contempory South Africa. Central among the discussion regarding the TRC was the very notion of justice itself. In this context, many saw justice offered up on the alter of compromise, whilst many regarded the process a...