This paper aims to address the question of whether sentences of imprisonment are being used only in the last resort, and then only in cases where no other suitable remedy exists , and it tries to do so by looking…
This paper is a journey into their criminal underworld – South Africa's heart of darkness. It is a unsettling journey but one that is vital if we are to reach beyond the public disquietude surrounding these cold-blooded youngsters and begin to understand the human contours of their moral exile and pariah status. The journey starts with their own, autobiographical accounts of how they were drawn into this world of deviance; the different paths they have traversed; the events that have taken place along the way and the dialogue that they have about their goals and dreams in the future.
This is a shortened version of a paper given by Wandile Zwane at a workshop held in Washington, DC, on CSVR's work in schools. The CSVR's Children and Violence Intervention Programme (CVIP) began in 1994 as a pilot project in four schools in Soweto. In addition, a teacher training programme called the "40 Schools Project," which services both primary and high schools, was initiated in 1996. The primary aim of the project was to reach children and to provide a service that would help to decrease the negative impact of violence. Since its inception, it has grown to include caregivers such as teachers, parents and extended family members.
This paper draws on primary research to analyse youth self defence structures in Gauteng. The paper considers the aspirations and needs of youth involved in these defence structures, and considers the ways that the state could address these aspirations and needs.
This paper seeks to analyse some of the dynamics which shape the character and intensity of violent behaviour in black schools, particularly in the years after February 1990. In order to examine this violence, this paper will attempt to revisit and re-examine the crisis in the township schools of the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vaal Triangle.
This paper looks at the effects of political and criminal violence on township children. It focuses on children as victims rather than perpetrators of violence, although the latter can also be said to be victims of violence.