PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsThe State of Access to Information in South AfricaThis report provides a comprehensive overview of the state of access to information in South Africa with particular focus on the implementation of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) (2000). The author draws on several interviews conducted with various researchers, activists, lawyers and academics in civil society organisations involved in access to information work/activity as well as relevant… Read More Dale McKinleyJanuary 5, 2004
PublicationsResearchCrime PreventionTraditional Leaders in the eThekwini Metropolitan region: Their Role in Crime Prevention and Safety PromotionThis report discusses the role that the traditional leaders play in the prevention of crime and violence in the eThekwini metropolitan region. It is part of a project undertaken in three of the metropolitan regions that contain large rural areas, that is, Tshwane, eThekwini and Ekhuruleni. The emphasis for the research was on the functioning of the traditional courts, however,… Read More Ingrid PalmaryJanuary 5, 2004
PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Reparations and Victim Services, Transitional JusticeSouthern Africa Reconciliation Project: Khulumani Case StudyThis paper looks at the work of the Khulumani Support Group, a non-government organisation (NGO) in South Africa that has been lobbying government to implement a clear reparations policy for the survivors of apartheid-era political violence. It will outline some of the organisation's major campaigns as well as evaluate its effectiveness. The case study will examine the context within which… Read More Oupa MakhalemeleJanuary 1, 2004
PublicationsResearchReparations and Victim Services, Transitional JusticeStill Not Talking: Government's Exclusive Reparations Policy and the Impact of the 30 000 Financial Reparations on SurvivorsThis report highlights survivors' views about the R30 000 reparations granted by the South African government. This money was granted to those identified as survivors of gross human rights violations by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The views expressed by twenty survivors of gross human rights violations living in the Vaal townships, south of Johannesburg, shows the frustrations experienced… Read More Oupa MakhalemeleJanuary 1, 2004
PublicationsResearchMemory and Memorialisation, Reconciliation, Transitional JusticeA Case Study of Constitution HillThis report analyses the role of museums in promoting national unity, stability and reconciliation in post-conflict society, looking specifically at Constitution Hill in the post-Apartheid South African context. It will be shown that Constitution Hill can, if created to meet the needs of the community within which it finds itself, achieve its potential as a vehicle for civic engagement and… Read More Ereshnee NaiduDecember 5, 2003
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingKilling and the Constitution – Arrest and the Use of Lethal ForceThis article sets out the major developments relating to Section 49 of the Criminal Procedure Act, the law relating to the use of lethal force for arrest, since 1994. It focuses on three key questions relevant to understanding provisions on the use of lethal force for arrest. Firstly the types of offences or situations in relation to which the use… Read More David BruceDecember 1, 2003
