PublicationsResearchPeacebuildingCSVR 2007 Annual ReportThe subsequent CSVR 2007 annual report is an overview of CSVR thematic programmes, board of directors and members of staff, human resources, financials, supporters, partners as well as publications. Read More CSVRJanuary 1, 2007
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Migrants and XenophobiaWomen on the Run: Female Survivors of Torture Amongst Zimbabwean Asylum Seekers and Refugees in South AfricaThousands of Zimbabwean women have been subjected to several forms of torture, including rape, throughout the country's current political, economic and humanitarian crisis, according to a previous report produced by the Zimbabwe Torture Victims and Survivors Project. The report was written to coincide with South Africa's 'Sixteen days on gender activism'. It shows that a significant proportion of the women… Read More CSVRDecember 1, 2006
ArticlesMediaInequalities, Transitional JusticeValues in South Africa: In Search of Self-RespectIn his Nelson Mandela memorial lecture in late July, President Thabo Mbeki expressed concern about the dominance of acquisitive values amongst South Africans. Mbeki stated that the new political order had inherited from the apartheid years 'a well-entrenched value system that placed individual acquisition of wealth at the very centre of the value system of our society'. Similar concerns were… Read More CSVRSeptember 1, 2006
ArticlesMediaInequalities, PolicingPervasive Violence Reflects Widespread Insecurity About StatusIn his Nelson Mandela memorial lecture on 29 July, President Thabo Mbeki expressed concern about an acquisitive spirit which has taken root amongst South Africans. Mbeki talked of a situation where 'personal wealth, and the public communication of the message that we are people of wealth' becomes 'the means by which we communicate the message that we are worthy citizens… Read More CSVRAugust 20, 2006
ArticlesMediaCriminal Justice, PolicingCrime Statistics: Hidden by the Long Veil of the LawSince 2001 official policy has been that crime statistics will only be released with the publication of the South African Police Service annual report in September. This means that the most current crime statistics in the public domain are already five months old when released in September each year. By July of the following year say these are 15 months… Read More CSVRJuly 28, 2006
ArticlesMediaTorture and State ViolenceSouth Africa May Be Complicit in Torture and 'Disappearance'The debate around the deportation and whereabouts of Khalid Rashid has ignored an important issue. South African authorities may be complicit in the torture of those suspected of involvement in terrorist activities. South Africa has deported foreigners to countries that are known to systematically practice torture and where opponents of the government and terror suspects are known to have "disappeared"… Read More CSVRJune 27, 2006
