ArticlesMediaInequalities, Migrants and Xenophobia, PolicingXenophobia: Don't Deploy More Police; More Social Spending Needed to End UnemploymentCommunity protests against violent crime, which are then followed by xenophobic violence and vigilantism, are not new in Diepsloot. In 2013, two toddlers were brutally killed and sexually assaulted. Following this incident, foreign nationals were blamed, attacked and their shops looted. Nine years later, little has changed despite the deployment of officials and politicians to engage the community. In April 2022,… Read More Malose Langa and Steven RebelloMay 3, 2022
PublicationsResearchInequalities, Torture and State ViolenceA Case Study of the Marikana Massacre in South AfricaThis article reflects on the Marikana massacre of August 2012, subsequent violent strikes and responses by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as a case study, and provides an analysis about whether these interventions bring transformative change or maintain the status quo in times of crisis. Events associated with Marikana are seen to be embedded in social structures of the time and part… Read More Malose Langa and Steven RebelloJanuary 14, 2020
PublicationsResearchViolence PreventionGovernment and Civil Society Collaboration: Lessons from a Partnership between CSVR, COGTA AND GIZ-VCPThe Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) has researched the Community Work Programme (CWP) since 2010. In 2016, the CSVR entered into a partnership with the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) which aimed to train, support and strengthen CWP participants’ ability to prevent violence through the work that they carried out in the programme… Read More Malose Langa and Steven RebelloSeptember 3, 2019
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Violence PreventionStrengthening Urban Violence Prevention Through the CWP: Learnings from CSVR's Pre- and Post-Training EvaluationCSVR has conducted research on South Africa’s Community Work Programme (CWP) since 2010. In 2016, the organisation commenced with an eff ort to strengthen urban violence prevention interventions carried out by CWP through their work. These eff orts involved training 145 CWP participants, from four CWP sites across South Africa, in the areas of gender-based violence, working with men, substance… Read More Malose Langa and Steven RebelloJune 2, 2019
ArticlesMediaViolence PreventionBalancing the Narrative in Zwelihle, HermanusThis past Friday’s events, if anything, place a large question mark over the popular portrayal of the violent protests that have rocked the coastal town. “Marauding bandits”, “criminals”, “savages”, “hooligans”, “rogues”, “thugs” and “terrorists” are some of the popular portrayals that have been used to describe the “ringleaders” of the Zwelihle protests that have received the recent attention of Police… Read More Malose LangaOctober 2, 2018
PublicationsResearchGender-based ViolenceThe Fathers of DestinyThis study utilised textual analysis to characterise the representation of fatherhood in the eight issues of Destiny Man magazine published in 2014. Stories that pertained to fatherhood and that were related to aspects of contemporary family construction, work, and identity formation were included for detailed text analysis. Our findings suggest that fatherhood is defined by access to wealth, and is… Read More Malose LangaJuly 20, 2018
