ArticlesMediaStudy on the Violent Nature of Crime, Violence PreventionDoes Anyone in Charge Care About Violence?Two years after the completion of a substantial study into violent crime in SA, the government has still not shown any constructive response, writes David Bruce. The government has been far more responsive to the violence impacting on the middle class and formal business sector than to violence as it impacts on the poor. Last week was a difficult one… Read More CSVRNovember 21, 2010
ArticlesMediaStudy on the Violent Nature of Crime, Violence PreventionPress Release: Nothing New? The Study on the Violent Nature of Crime1. The CSVR crime study is of considerable value in taking forward the debate about how to respond to violent crime. The overall ‘integrated view’ of key aspects of the problem of violence is an important achievement of the study and takes the study beyond anything that has been done on the subject in South Africa. The CSVR study is… Read More CSVRNovember 10, 2010
ArticlesMediaProsecutions and Pardons, Reparations and Victim Services, Transitional JusticeVictims Left Out of the EquationThe Department of Justice and Constitutional Development recently published a list of names of those who have been recommended for special political pardons. The purpose of the publication of these names is to give victims of these crimes an opportunity to engage with the process. This is an important step in the continuing process of lobbying and advocacy among political… Read More CSVRNovember 10, 2010
ArticlesMediaStudy on the Violent Nature of Crime, Violence PreventionPress Release: The Study on the Violent Nature of Crime1. In February 2007 the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation was contracted by government to carry out a study on the violent nature of crime in South Africa. The study involved the production of six reports over two years (a short seventh supplementary report was produced in April 2009). A substantial part of the work involved analysing,… Read More CSVRNovember 9, 2010
ArticlesMediaAmnesty, Prosecutions and Pardons, Transitional JusticePress Release: SACTJ Urges Further Efforts to Engage Victims of Pardon ApplicantsThe Department of Justice yesterday published the names of 149 convicted persons who have been recommended for a presidential pardon in terms of the Special Dispensation created by former President Mbeki in 2007. The crimes for which the offenders sought pardon were also disclosed. It was a requirement of the Special Dispensation for the applicants to demonstrate a political motive. … Read More CSVROctober 21, 2010
ArticlesMediaMigrants and Xenophobia, Violence PreventionXenophobia: Yet Another Threat to the Power of MythsViolence in society is like a crack in a mirror. The crack distorts the image of us, and we become ambiguous. Un-unified. Like the mirror’s crack, violence destroys the fabric that unites people, thus eliminating the possibility of togetherness. South African history speaks at length of the harm that divisions cause, and when sustained with violence, the damage is often… Read More CSVRJuly 22, 2010
