PolicyPublicationsSocial Cohesion, Urban Safety, Violence PreventionWorking for Safety: The Community Work Programme as a Tool for Preventing Violence and Building Safer CommunitiesThe Community Work Programme (CWP) provides two days of work per week (up to 100 days per year) to unemployed and underemployed people. During the year April 2014 to March 2015 there were 202 599 participants in the CWP at 186 CWP sites across South Africa. The primary purpose of the CWP is to provide an employment safety net. By… Read More CSVRSeptember 20, 2017
PolicyPublicationsUrban Safety, Violence PreventionHow the Community Work Programme Can Reach Its Full Potential as an Instrument of Community Development in South AfricaCSVR has been involved in research on the CWP and its impact on violence and crime prevention since 2013. One of the first observations from this research was that there is a lot of variation between different CWP sites. Some sites are much more dynamic than others. Sites that are functioning better are also the sites that are likely to… Read More CSVRSeptember 20, 2017
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
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, Reparations and Victim Services, Urban SafetyTowards Improving Forced Migrant Access to Health and Psychosocial Rights in Urban South Africa: A Focus on JohannesburgThis issue brief is a quick reference guide regarding urban forced migrant access to their legally guaranteed health and psychosocial rights in Johannesburg. This issue brief highlights that policies designed to protect the health and psychosocial rights of urban forced migrants are not being effectively implemented in Johannesburg. This results in urban forced migrants experiencing multiple “daily stressors” that negatively… Read More Jo Vearey and Lorena NunezNovember 13, 2011
PublicationsResearchStudy on the Violent Nature of Crime, Urban SafetyWhy Does South Africa Have Such High Rates of Violent Crime?In February 2007 the Minister of Safety and Security contracted the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation to carry out a study on the violent nature of crime in South Africa. CSVR was required to produce six reports and following the final report presentation to then minister of Safety and Security, Mr. Nathi Mthetwa CSVR was tasked with… Read More CSVRApril 7, 2009
PublicationsResearchStudy on the Violent Nature of Crime, Urban SafetyTackling Armed Violence. Key Findings and Recommendations of the Study on the Violent Nature of Crime in South AfricaIn February 2007 the Minister of Safety and Security contracted the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation to carry out a study on the violent nature of crime in South Africa. This document is the final report, Component 6 of the project. It provides what may be regarded as the “high level” findings of the study as well… Read More CSVRFebruary 1, 2009
