PublicationsResearchVigilantism, Violence in TransitionThe Power of Naming: 'Senseless Violence' and Violent Law in Post-Apartheid South AfricaThis report focuses on vigilantism, on the practice of ‘necklacing’ as a form of punishment, and on police violence in South Africa post-apartheid. The report engages with a series of questions about how popular forms of justice are imagined and enacted and about what the persistence of forms of violent punishment that originated during apartheid signifies in South Africa today… Read More Kylie ThomasApril 10, 2013
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in TransitionThe Persistence of Military Identities among Ex-Combatants in South AfricaThis report focuses on the ways in which ex-combatants have remained militarised at both an individual and a collective level in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that ex-combatants’ military identities and skills can be both beneficial and detrimental to their families, communities and the state. For this reason, as long as DDRR programmes remain short-term processes aimed chiefly at disarming… Read More Maringira Godfrey and Jasmina BrankovicApril 10, 2013
PublicationsResearchViolence in TransitionOpportunities and Challenges of South-South Partnership: Reflections on a Collaborative Research Project on Violence and Transition in AfricaThis report reflects on the experience of four South-based organisations in conducting collaborative research on violence and transition in Africa. It explores some of the challenges and opportunities offered by working collaboratively on common themes across different contexts with research partners with diverse goals and institutional arrangements, and seeks to draw some lessons for how such partnerships can benefit individual… Read More CSVRApril 10, 2013
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Inequalities, Violence in TransitionViolent Masculinities and Service Delivery Protests in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Case Study of Two Communities in MpumalangaThis Article draws on two case studies in which in-depth group and individual interviews were conducted with key male informants about their involvement in violent service delivery protests in South Africa. It provides a gendered analysis of these events by focusing on Connell’s (1995) notion of hegemonic masculinity, which refers to dominant cultural stereotypes in which men are expected to… Read More Malose LangaMarch 13, 2013
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
PublicationsResearchViolence in TransitionDictating the Local Balance of PowerDavid Bruce turns the scope on the so called "violent free" 2009 election marred with numerous incidents of election-related violence. He poses the serious question of how election-related violence should be perceived, is it a part of the fabric of our democratic right to vote ? and is the violence a concern for future elections ?. Read More David BruceJune 1, 2009
