Investigation Units: The Teeth of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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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 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 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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This paper discusses community policing as a concept, the legislative background to community policing in South Africa, as well as the role of civil society, the provincial government and local government in community policing. The paper argues that the implementation of community policing in South Africa has given rise to a set of new social and political relationships at all levels of society. Moreover, the social context in which community policing occurs has had a major impact on the nature of these relationships, particularly in regard to the role of civil society in the process of transforming societal institutions.

Pakiso Sylvester Rakgoadi
03 Jul 1995
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This paper draws on primary research to analyse youth self defence structures in Gauteng. The paper considers the aspirations and needs of youth involved in these defence structures, and considers the ways that the state could address these aspirations and needs.

Monique Marks
01 Jul 1995
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