This paper is a submission to the Goldstone Standing Commission into the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation into Events at Boipatong, August 1992. The purpose of this submission is to provide a contextual understanding of the findings of the inquiry by Dr. P.A.J. Waddington into the police investigation of and response to the events at Boipatong on 17 June 1992. It contains recommendations in relation to policing which are essential if the police force is to effectively serve the people of Boipatong and other communities.
This proposal sets out guidelines for monitoring of political violence in the immediate future. The proposal covers both local (domestic) and international monitoring agencies. While monitoring is often assumed to refer to all aspects related to political conflict, the accepted focus of monitoring in the international context is the conduct of armed forces.
This paper examines the various areas of township youth's lives which have almost completely broken down, particularly family and schools. These areas of life are also the sites of violence which form a daily part of African youths' lives. The author argues that the traditional authority of parents and teachers no longer has the legitimacy that it once had and this leaves a huge gap in the lives of youths that desperately needs to be filled.
This working paper attempts to account for the character of the police forces in the homelands. It also briefly sets out some of the issues to be addressed in the process of re-incorporating (re-integrating) the police institutions of the TBVC states and self-governing territories into a national policing agency.
This paper examines the role of the security forces in the violence that claimed the lives of 923 people in the first four months of 1992 and a staggering 12,867 people since September 1984.