To come to terms with crime and violence in South Africa, we must get behind the masks of both the criminal and society itself - the hidden social processes that give rise to crime and violence. We must be proactive to ...

The promise offered by South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 was that, with the end of apartheid, levels of violence in South African society would drop significantly. However, various forms of social violence ...

This chapter responds to some of the challenges presented by the South African anthropologist, Patty Henderson in relation to the (re)conceptualisations of childhood. Henderson describes a situation that is common in many ...

This report contains findings from a rapid analysis of the recent 'xenophobic' attacks perpetrated mainly against foreign nationals in some of the South Africa's poorest communities. It was commissioned at the request of ...

Violence against black lesbians has no place in our democracy and, along with other forms of discriminatory violence, requires dedicated public education and stronger condemnation by policy-makers and civil society in order ...

The South African Human Sciences Research Council's report on Citizenship, Violence and Xenophobia in South Africa (HSRC, June 2008) makes some disturbing recommendations to government on how to prevent a recurrence of the ...

The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which crime and violence have become endemic in Gauteng schools, to examine causal factors and to explore possible interventions.