PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Policing, Transitional JusticeCreating a New South African Police Service: Priorities in the Post-Election PeriodThis paper describes the major challenges faced by the new government in realizing the Constitutional vision of one accountable and transparent South African Police Service. The issues selected reflect concern with the transformation of the police organization, as the central institution in the broader enterprise of policing. They could be regarded as priority items on the agenda of elected politicians and police leaders responsible for the reform process. Read More Janine Rauch, Nadia Levin, Melanie Lue and Kindisa NgubeniJuly 1, 1994
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsProposed Legislation on Amnesty/Indemnity and the Establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation CommissionThis submission is concerned with the issue of seemingly imminent "amnesty" legislation in South Africa, and with the related issues of public access to information relating to past human rights abuses during the apartheid era, as well as during the subsequent negotiation period. Read More Graeme SimpsonJune 1, 1994
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Policing, Transitional JusticeMeeting the Challenge of Change? Notes on Policing and Transition in South AfricaThe haphazard transition negotiation process, which was frequently stalled or held to ransom by various key political players, was not systematic in generating new consensus-based alternatives for social regulation. The result had been a vacuum of legitimate authority within society, accompanied by growing lawlessness, which in turn accentuated the challenge to policing agencies to establish their credibility based on community trust and professionalism. This paper examines some of the limits and possibilities of the transformation of the SAPS in this context. Read More Nadia Levin, Kindisa Ngubeni and Graeme SimpsonMay 2, 1994
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Violence in IndustryBusiness and Endemic Violence in South Africa: Surviving the Disaster or Managing the Transition?This paper examines the links between business and violence in South Africa in the context of its transition. Read More Graeme SimpsonMarch 16, 1994
PublicationsResearchCivil Society, Reconciliation, Transitional JusticeThe Responsibility of Civil Society: Priorities, Strategies and Concerns for Reconciliation in South AfricaThis paper examines the role that civil society plays in South Africa's reconciliation processes. Read More Meverett KoetzFebruary 18, 1994
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions, Violence in TransitionTruth Recovery or McCarthyism Revisited: An Evaluation of the Stasi Records Act of 1991 with Reference to the South African ExperienceThis paper examines the fraught issue of access to the records of intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies. The dilemmas which this topic poses are at the cutting edge of the tensions between the rights of access to information and those of privacy. Read More Graeme SimpsonFebruary 4, 1994
