PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Violence Prevention#Hashtag: An Analysis of the #FeesMustFall Movement at South African UniversitiesThis study explores the dynamics of students’ protests in South Africa order to understand the manifestations of violence and the sequence of events within each university during #FeesMustFall. It provides analyses of the #FeesMustFall protests in nine universities: the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), University of Zululand, Rhodes University, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus),… Read More CSVRMarch 10, 2017
ArticlesMediaChildren and YouthPress Release: Student Challenges Are "Ignored"The current protests on campuses cannot be resolved by dealing only with issues of free higher education, but must also deal with the unresolved legacies of the past. The patterns of escalation during #feesmustfall protests follow other protests which ended violently. It is the same script as what we saw in Marikana and Tshwane. It seems as if we as… Read More CSVROctober 3, 2016
ArticlesMediaChildren and Youth, Inequalities, Transitional JusticePress Release: CSVR Supports Call for Transformation of Higher Learning InstitutionsThe current protests on campuses cannot be resolved by dealing only with issues of free higher education, but must also deal with the unresolved legacies of the past. The patterns of escalation during #feesmustfall protests follow other protests which ended violently. It is the same script as what we saw in Marikana and Tshwane. It seems as if we as… Read More CSVROctober 3, 2016
ArticlesMediaChildren and Youth, Inequalities, Violence PreventionPress Release: Violence Related to the FeesMustFall CampaignThe Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) stands in support of the call for fair, equitable and affordable higher education in South Africa and welcomes the 0% increase announced by the president. This however is a small victory within a larger battle for social justice. CSVR is alarmed by the government’s initial nonchalant response to the students’… Read More CSVROctober 22, 2015
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Gangs, Gender-based Violence, Study on the Violent Nature of Crime, Urban Safety, Violence in Transition, Violence PreventionLeaving the Gangster Things to the Boys Growing Up Now: Young Men, Physical Violence, and Structural Violence in Post-Transition South AfricaThis paper examines the intersection of physical violence, structural violence, and masculinity through the life history narrative of a 20-year-old man exiting an informal gang in Gugulethu, a township in Cape Town. Beginning and remaining with James Madoda’s narrative, the paper shows how the gendered physical violence between young men in townships emerges from historical and present-day structural violence -… Read More Jasmina BrankovicFebruary 27, 2013
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Violence PreventionEnding the Age of the Marginal MajorityAs part of its focus on human security, the Southern Africa Trust has sought to understand the extent of youth violence and crime in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, as well as the underlying or contributing factors that can explain the levels of youth violence. To this end, it commissioned research on the extent and drivers of youth… Read More Lauren Graham, David Bruce and Helene PeroldJuly 1, 2010
