This report provides an exploration of some key issues affecting ex-combatants in South Africa. It is based on a former series of in-depth interviews and focus groups with former members of various armed groupings that participated in South Africa's previous…
This paper interrogates the previously high levels of violence that are currently directed at foreigners, particularly African foreigners, in South Africa. It explores the term 'xenophobia' and various hypotheses about its causes. It also explores the ways in which xenophobia…
This paper focuses only on implementation of the Urban Renewal Programme (URP) in the Metropolitan Municipalities, in line with the scope of the CSVR's City Safety Project. There was at the time two Urban Renewal Nodes (Mndantsane and Galeshewe) located…
The following document depicts graphs and information based on data previously obtained from the South African Police Services (SAPS). The SAPS data were reflected as crimes recorded by the SAPS by police area. Total figures for each crime type were…
This subsequent report aims to contribute to documenting the evolution of municipal policing in South Africa. Establishing fully operational police agencies is no easy task, and all municipal police agencies face steep learning curves in their initial years. It is…
This paper looks into the nature of the local government engagement with immigrant communities in South African cities. For the purposes of this preliminary research, the focus was on refugee groups (including asylum seekers) as they were the group of…