This paper addresses itself to the concerns that have been voiced about the effect of years of exposure to high levels of political violence on South Africa's children. It responds to evidence that exposure to violence causes short-term psychological suffering and concerns that it may have more fundamental consequences for their psychological development and future behaviour.
This paper suggests that rehabilitation is the process which makes it possible for an institutionalised and ostracised individual to function as a responsible citizen by enabling him to exercise his rights to meet his obligations. This does not address the dilemma of rehabilitation should the individual not have rights or the resources necessary to meet his obligations. This paper examines the likelihood of successful rehabilitation for two contrasting examples: firstly of an individual whose primary material needs cannot be met and secondly of an individual whose material needs can be realised and whose primary requirements would be social and personal rehabilitation.
This article seeks to ensure that gender oppression, and in this case particularly the problem of violence against women in South Africa, is given the consideration it deserves in the construction of a new democratic society free of oppression.
This paper is concerned with physical violence directed against people rather than property, as there is an identifiable trend towards more attacks against people over the last five or six years in South Africa. The result has been an escalation in criminal charges emanating from labour disputes.
This paper provides psychological explanations to how the violence in South Africa is not the consequence of giving too much freedom to a population 'not ready' to make good use of it but a range of various preceding factors.
This paper reflects on the multitude of effects of repression in security management, security legislation, vigilantes, hit squads and ending state violence.