PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsCreating a Space for Remembrance: The Healing of Memories ProcessThe aim of this report is to examine the 'Healing of Memories' (HOM) process as one intervention in the larger discourse around truth and reconciliation in South Africa since 1994 until today. HOM workshops present one of the few institutionalised post-TRC spaces for South Africans to consciously and practically engage with personal memories and with each other about the apartheid… Read More Undine Whande KayserJanuary 3, 2000
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsTransformation of the Magistracy: Balancing Independence and Accountability in the New Democratic OrderThis report documents this ongoing tension between independence and accountability as it affects the magistracy. It does so through three case studies that can be framed as encounters with the independence-accountability issue: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the lay assessor system, and social context training. Read More Lazarus Kgalema and Paul GreadyJanuary 3, 2000
PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsRebuilding Fractured Societies: Reconstruction, Reconciliation and the Changing Nature of Violence – Some Self-Critical Insights from Post-Apartheid South AfricaBased primarily on the South African experience, this discussion paper will attempt to offer a broad analysis of some of the key challenges faced by societies emerging from intense conflict, or making the often painful transition from autocratic rule to democracy. In so doing, it will reflect self-critically on some of the challenges of transformation, reconciliation, democratisation and - in… Read More Graeme SimpsonJanuary 3, 2000
PublicationsResearchPolicing, Urban SafetyBy-law Enforcement in South African CitiesThis paper will attempt to sketch the developments in by-law enforcement in the four major cities in South Africa, and in doing so, shall firstly examine the rationale behind by-law enforcement with specific reference to enabling legislation for such enforcement to take place. Secondly, the above examination will be carried out with reference to renewed attempts aimed at reviving metropolitan… Read More Mzi MemezaJanuary 3, 2000
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Urban SafetyAn Analysis of Safety and Security in the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan AreaThis report is one of four reports making up the second phase of the CSVR's City Safety project. The baseline report gave an introduction to the location and function of city safety structures in South Africa's four major cities (Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria). This report aims to delve more deeply into city safety issues in Pretoria with a… Read More Ingrid PalmaryJanuary 1, 2000
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingA Lonely Way to Die: An Examination of Deaths in Police CustodyThe Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation was commissioned by the Independent Complaints Directorate to conduct research into several areas within its statutory mandate. One of these areas was an examination of the problem of deaths occurring in police custody. Read More CSVRJuly 2, 1999
