PublicationsResearchInequalities, Migrants and Xenophobia, Policing, Psychosocial Support, Violence PreventionThe Smoke That Calls: Insurgent Citizenship and the Struggle for a Place in the New South AfricaThe origins of this research lay in the wave of xenophobic attacks which swept across South Africa in May 2008. The report looks at xenophobic violence and community protests together, drawing the links both empirically as one form of collective action spawns or mutates into another, and theoretically through the concept of insurgent citizenship. It combines an attempt to understand… Read More CSVR and SWOPJuly 20, 2011
ArticlesMediaPolicingPress Release: South Africa Requires a More Professional Approach to the Use of Force by PoliceIn several recent statements Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa and the National Commissioner, General Bheki Cele, have called for tougher and more forceful policing. This approach to the use of force is ill advised and will be counterproductive for both the police and the public in South Africa. Instead police need to be supported in attaining professional standards in the… Read More CSVRJuly 7, 2011
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingPolice and the Use of Force in South Africa: Time for a New ApproachThis report discusses the legal framework currently surrounding the use of deadly force by the South African Police Services. It recommends several conceptual flaws with current legislation and makes recommendations for amendments. Read More APCOF, CSVR and ISSJuly 6, 2011
ArticlesMediaReparations and Victim Services, Transitional JusticePress Release: SACTJ Submission to Department of Justice on ReparationsOn 11 May 2011, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development gazetted regulations for the payment of educational assistance and health benefits exclusively to victims identified by the TRC. The regulations were gazetted after only a very superficial consultation process with victims and other stakeholders and do not address the key concerns expressed by these stakeholders. The South African… Read More CSVRJune 10, 2011
ArticlesMediaReparations and Victim Services, Transitional JusticePress Release: SACTJ Calls in State to Honour Its Reparations Obligations for All VictimsOn 11 May 2011, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJ&CD) gazetted regulations for the payment of educational assistance and health benefits exclusively to victims identified by the TRC. The regulations were gazetted after only a very superficial consultation process with victims and other stakeholders, and do not address the key concerns expressed by these stakeholders. The current proposals… Read More CSVRJune 1, 2011
ArticlesMediaPolicingPress Release: Police Brutality Was Not an Isolated IncidentThe incident of police brutality reported on SABC television on Wednesday which resulted in the death of Andries Tatane raises important concerns. Police who are dealing with service delivery protests or other demonstrations are often responding to very heated and highly charged situations. Nevertheless as members of the national police service we expect no less of them than that they… Read More CSVRApril 15, 2011
