The Domestic Violence Act ("the DVA") was introduced as a comprehensive civil remedy for domestic abuse in 1998. Many have sought its protection since, with at least 157 391 applications for protection orders made in 2004 alone. This research brief…
This report appears as part of the broader Race in Transition Series of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR). The report reveals the results of an extensive monitoring project of 4500 newspaper articles relating to racial…
Since the Metropolitan Police Departments (MPDs) operating in Gauteng were established three to four years ago, the Department of Community Safety has relied primarily on what has been termed 'Quarterly Reviews' to monitor these agencies. The purpose of this report…
Over the last seven years, the Violence and Transition Project (VTP) at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) has examined violence in relation to the fields of transitional justice, criminal justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation. This paper…
The transformation of the South African Police Service (SAPS) by the country's first democratically elected government started over a decade ago, in 1994. Over a decade later, very little research has been conducted on the impact this transformation process has…
This paper is not intended to discuss the legal mandate of the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) but to rather discuss how it has interpreted this mandate. In recent years the ICD has adopted an approach in terms of which it aims…