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South Africa is one step closer to having an independent agency that should be able to investigate and act against high-level corruption. On 17 May the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Police,...
Much coverage in the mainstream and scientific press in the developed world has focused on the dispute over whether or not to publish the studies as some fear they could provide recipes for...
Should the police be more trustworthy than any other citizen? And if they are not, can you hold the Minister of Police to account? In an important unanimous judgement penned by South African Chief...
Last Wednesday Isaac* woke up in his rented room in Kwanokuthula and prepared for his day. He washed, dressed and collected together his crafting tools and materials for making wire ornaments. He...
"Crime in South Africa keeps going down, for which the police and many communities deserve some credit. But what the statistics don't reveal is the grim reality of many serious and often hidden...
On 4 May 2011 Judge Deon van Zyl, the South African Inspecting Judge for Correctional Services, took the stand in the high profile case of Shrien Diwani. The case, being heard in Belmarsh, United...
There are no shortage of theories, hypotheses and even unfounded beliefs about what drives crime and what is the best approach to solving the problem. Approaches to the problem fall into two broad...
In his 1998 book about the Rwandan genocide, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, Philip Gourevitch wrote eloquently about the power of the media to incite...
The decision to substantially outsource any core activity of the state to the private sector, particularly criminal justice system functions, is not uncontroversial, nor is it a matter to be taken...
Sex work researchers have dismissed fears of a massive rise in human trafficking for the World Cup, saying that cash-strapped nongovernmental organisation (NGOs) could be tagging onto the...
"Human trafficking and enslavement is a growing problem, with the poor being particularly vulnerable. Awareness is one of the tools to fight it," wrote Rudo Mungoshi on the City of Johannesburg...
Several anti-trafficking campaigns have been initiated in South Africa ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. These campaigns intend to prevent individuals from being trafficked by raising awareness...
To pardon or not to pardon? And then who to pardon? These questions have occupied acres of column space, bloggers too numerous to tally and South Africans of all persuasions over the past few...
Since May 2008 South Africans have watched an unseemly and often confusing legal wrangle between what appear to be sectional interests in the legal profession. Initially the matter centered on...