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The process of introducing a community policing philosophy in Gauteng has been an exciting one. The important facet of this process was the establishment of community police forums at police stations throughout the province. This document draws on the draft report on community policing in Gauteng with a view to formulating policies which will further enhance the process which has already been initiated or any other similar or related processes which could be set up in the province.

Pakiso Sylvester Rakgoadi
01 Nov 1995
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The Children and Violence Intervention Project (CVIP), an extension of the Save the Children Pilot Project, is a trauma intervention and education programme which serves six schools in the township of Soweto in South Africa. This report describes in detail the successes and obstacles the CVIP has encountered over the last two years. It also serves as an introductory look at the important service the project is providing in the severely disadvantaged community of Soweto.

Dorothy Khosa and Wandile Zwane
01 Nov 1995
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This report answers the question as to why a witness protection programme is necessary in South Africa. It offers a brief evaluation of witness protection in South Africa up to and including the Goldstone Commission's witness protection programme. Thereafter, it examines some of the broader issues that need to be taken into account with the conceptualisation and establishment of such an initiative. The ultimate object of this paper is to provide concrete recommendations, suggestions and potential solutions to the various problems raised.

Gareth Newham
02 Oct 1995
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This paper outlines the theoretical framework used to understand militarised youth and their defence structures. This is followed by an overview of the history of youth struggles, identity and organisation in the 1980s. The third section deals with defence structures in the eighties. The next section examines the political shifts in the nineties and this is followed by a discussion of defence structures post April 1994. The sixth section seeks to uncover the aspirations and goals of militarised youth. Section seven examines the future of youth defence structures, whilst the final section looks at two programs aimed at integrating former members of defence structures into society.

Monique Marks and Penny McKenzie
01 Sep 1995
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This paper examines various issues relating to the investigation units (IU) of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Based primarily on extensive interviews with people involved in the Goldstone Commission's investigations and those involved in other relevant investigations into human rights violations, this paper highlights the issues that will need to be addressed in the establishment of investigation units for the TRC. 

Gareth Newham
01 Sep 1995
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This paper explores how the process of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) could operate as psychologically rehabilitative mechanism. It focuses on the potentially numerous traumatised individuals who will come into contact with the TRC and their likely experience of the process. The core argument is that the TRC is not a sufficient process in itself to promote individual and collective psychological rehabilitation and that a range of psychological structures and strategies will be needed to run parallel to the TRC. Types of structures are suggested and the psychological implications of truth and reconciliation process highlighted throughout.

Brandon Hamber
26 Jul 1995
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