PublicationsResearchPolitical Violence, Violence in TransitionJustice Denied: Political Violence in KwaZulu-Natal After 1994The Violence and Transition Series is a product of an extensive research project conducted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) into the nature and extent of violence during South Africa’s transition from apartheid rule to democracy. This series comprises a set of self-contained, but interrelated reports. Read More Rupert TaylorSeptember 2, 2002
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, Violence in TransitionA Foreign Experience: Violence, Crime and Xenophobia During South Africa's TransitionThis report examines the involvement of foreigners in violence during South Africa's period of transition. It grapples with the legal, political and social implications of foreigners in a changing social order. In so doing, the report examines a plethora of complex issues, including: the foreign experience of crime and violence in a context of increasing xenophobia; post-apartheid discourses about immigrants… Read More Bronwyn HarrisAugust 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchVigilantism, Violence in TransitionAs for Violent Crime That's Our Daily Bread: Vigilante Violence During South Africa's Period of TransitionThe Violence and Transition Series is a product of an extensive research project conducted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) into the nature and extent of violence during South Africa’s transition from apartheid rule to democracy. This report explores vigilante violence in South Africa over the period 1980-2000. Based on interview and media material, it… Read More Bronwyn HarrisMay 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchVigilantism, Violence in TransitionGuardian or Gangster? Mapogo a Mathamaga: A Case StudyThe Violence and Transition Series is a product of an extensive research project conducted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) into the nature and extent of violence during South Africa’s transition from apartheid rule to democracy. This report provides insight into the anti-crime group Mapogo a Mathamaga from a range of perspectives offered by those… Read More Antina von Schnitzler, Goodwill Ditlhage, Lazarus Kgalema, Traggy Maepa, Tlhoki Mofokeng and Piers PigouMay 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchTaxi Violence, Violence in TransitionFrom Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi Violence in South Africa (1987 – 2000)This report presents the results of a case study of South Africa's 'taxi wars', a series of violent conflicts that have marked the largely black-owned and black-operated minibus taxi industry since its deregulation in 1987. Prior to 1994, these taxi wars were relatively few in number and were predominantly linked to state-orchestrated violence. This report sets out an historical overview… Read More Jackie DugardJanuary 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchCulture of Violence, Violence in Transition"Have No Doubt It Is Fear in the Land": An Exploration of the Continuing Cycles of Violence in South AfricaThis paper describes the "culture of violence" by making reference to the extent of past and current levels of violence in South Africa. The threads of continuity between the so-called political violence that took place during the apartheid era and the current levels of criminal violence are highlighted. It is argued that it is only through understanding the nature of… Read More Brandon HamberMay 1, 1999
