Conference
A New Decade of Criminal Justice in South Africa -
Consolidating Transformation
Villa Via Hotel, Gordon's Bay, Western Cape, February 7-8, 2005
Supported by the Embassy of Belgium and the Ford Foundation
Final List of Speakers and Selected Conference Presentations
Opening Address
Mr Justice MS Navsa – Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court of Appeal - Opening Address
Plenary 1 — Criminal Justice Reform, Transition and Crime
Minister Leonard Ramatlakane, The Minister for Community Safety, Western Cape - Criminal Justice Reform, Transition and Crime
Graeme Simpson, Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
Plenary II — Contemporary Issues in South African Prisons
Judge Hannes Fagan, Inspecting Judge of Prisons - Our Bursting Prisons
Abbey Witbooi, General-Secretary, POPCRU - Management and Control of Prisons
Chris Giffard, independent researcher – respondent - Contemporary Issues in South African Prisons
Plenary III — Policy and Implementation
Simon Jiyane, Deputy Director-General, Court Services, Department of Justice - Policy and Implementation 
Adv Anne Skelton, Chief Litigator, Centre for Child Law, University of Pretoria – Implementation Planning – The Child Justice Bill
Bill Dixon, Department of Criminology, Keele University, UK - Copies of Bill Dixon's paper Development, Crime Prevention and the Criminalisation of Social Policy in South Africa are available on request from w.j.dixon@crim.keele.ac.uk
Plenary IV — Improving the Way the System Works: The next 10 years (Closing plenary)
Dr Tertius Geldenhuys, Head of Legislation, Legal Services, SAPS
Judge Dennis Davis, Cape High Court – The Criminal Justice System: How Much Transformation Has Taken Place During the First Decade of Constitutional Democracy'
Subashni Moodley, Deputy Commissioner, Personal Corrections, DCS
Conference closure
Elrena van der Spuy, Senior Lecturer and Director, Institute of Criminology, UCT
Workshop 1 — Violent Crime in South Africa: What We Know; What We Don't Know
Anton du Plessis, Head, Crime & Justice Programme – Violent Crime Levels in South Africa – an overview of available data
Martin Schönteich, Senior Legal Officer, National Criminal Justice, Open Society Justice Initiative, New York – Murder in South Africa: What We Know and Don't Know
Irvin Kinnes, Director, Kinnes and Associates
Elaine Salo, Lecturer, African Gender Institute, UCT - Mans is Ma Soe: Ganging practices in Manenberg, South Africa and the ideologies of masculinity, gender and generational relations
Lisa Vetten, Gender Programme Manager, CSVR
Workshop 2 — From Suspect to Sentence: Human Rights, Diversity and the Criminal Justice Process
Megan Prinsloo, Junior Scientist, MRC – A Review of Factors Impacting on the Criminal Investigation Process in Cape Town
Dr Nick Olivier, UNISA - Best Practices in Interviewing within a Culturally Diverse Society: Lessons for Law Enforcement
Abraham Hamman, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UWC - Cellphone Technology, Human Rights and the Criminal Justice Process
Prof Divya Singh, Director: School of Criminal Justice, UNISA- Research in Search of an Answer: Understanding One of the Dynamics that Keeps Battered Women in Abusive Relationships – Cultural Diversity Under the Hammer
Workshop 3 — Paradigms 1: Paradigms for Policing
Clifford Shearing, Professor in the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University - Paradigms for Policing
John Cartwright and Madeleine Jenneker, Community Peace Programme, School of Government, UWC - Governing Security: A working model in South Africa - The Peace Committee
Boyane Tshehla Senior Researcher, Crime & Justice Programme, ISS - Paradigms for Policing
Antony Altbeker, Senior Researcher, Crime & Justice Programme, ISS - Policing Paradigms. [
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Workshop 4 — International Cooperation and Criminal Justice
Kenny Kapinga, The Head of Bureau, Interpol-Sub Regional Bureau, Harare – Paper on International Cooperation and Criminal Justice
Adv Anton Katz, Member of the Cape Town and New York Bars - The Transformation of South Africa's Role in International Co-operation in Criminal Matters
Associate Professor Max du Plessis, Howard College School of Law, University of KZN, Durban - Africa and the International Criminal Court
Workshop 5 — Criminology and Criminal Justice Research
Prof Anna van der Hoven and Dr Michelle Ovens, Department of Criminology, UNISA – The Role of the Criminologist in the Criminal Justice System
Shanaaz Mathews, Researcher, Gender & Health Group, MRC – Challenges & Barriers to Data Collection from Investigating Officers: Experience from a National Study on Female Homicides in South Africa
Susan Lieberman, Urban Development Researcher, Building & Construction Technology, CSIR – Community Crime Mapping: local solutions to local problems
Iole Matthews, Independent Projects Trust and Mathew Smith, Strategy and Tactics – A Balanced Approach to Evaluating a Criminal Justice Strengthening Project
Workshop 6 — Access to Legal Assistance for Suspects and Victims
Patrick Hundermark, Regional Operations Executive: Eastern Cape and Free State, Legal Aid Board
Karam Jeet Singh, Project Coordinator: Education and Training Project, Lawyers for Human Rights, Cape Town - Access to Justice: Developing a Pro Bono Practice for South Africa
Associate Professor Peter Jordi – School of Law, Wits - Compensation for Victims of Crime in a Civil Context
Prof Danny Titus, Deputy Executive Dean, College for Law, UNISA
Workshop 7 — The Social Fabric & Social Crime Prevention
Dumisani Ntombela, SA Congress for Early Childhood Development
Associate Professor Andy Dawes – Director: Child Youth & Family Development, HSRC - Child Development, Anti-Social Behaviour and Effective Intervention
Assistant Commissioner Susan Pienaar, Head: Social Crime Prevention, SAPS Division Crime Prevention - Social Fabric & Social Crime Prevention Workshop
Bill Dixon, Department of Criminology, Keele University, UK. See plenary 3
Workshop 8 — Paradigms 2: Traditional Justice and Restorative Justice
Mike Batley, Executive Director, Restorative Justice Centre - Paradigms of Justice: Why Restorative Justice Should Be Part of the Next Decade of Criminal Justice in South Africa
Boyane Tshehla, Senior Researcher, Crime & Justice Programme, ISS
Associate Professor Wilfried Schärf, Institute of Criminology, UCT - The Challenges Facing Non-State Justice Systems in Southern Africa: How do, and How Should Governments Respond?
Workshop 9 – The Courts, Sentencing, and an Integrated Justice System
Adv Pieter du Rand, Chief Director, Court Services, Department of Justice - Paper on the Courts, Sentencing and an Integrated Justice System
Judge Hannes Fagan, Inspecting Judge of Prisons. See plenary 2
Prof Stephan Terblanche, Department of Criminal and Procedural Law, University of South Africa – Sentencing: Changes and Effect Since 1994
Workshop 10 — Police Oversight, Accountability and Discipline
Adv Karen McKenzie, Executive Director, Independent Complaints Directorate -
Police Accountability and Discipline
Gareth Newham, Project Manager, Criminal Justice Programme, CSVR – Internal Police Systems for Officer Control: A Strategic Focus Area for Improving Civilian Oversight and Police Accountability in South Africa
Duxita Mistry, Senior Researcher, Crime & Justice Programme, ISS – Civilian Oversight and Police Accountability
Sean Tait, Criminal Justice Initiative, Open Society Foundation – South Africa - Strengthening Police Oversight in South Africa: Opportunities for State Civil Society Partnerships
Dr Tertius Geldenhuys, Head of Legislation, Legal Services, SAPS
Workshop 11 — Development and Rehabilitation of Offenders
Dr Leon Holtzhausen, Deputy Director: Correctional Programmes, & Ann-Mari Hesselink Louw, Deputy Director: Offender Profiling, Directorate Risk Profile Management, Personal Corrections, Department of Correctional Services – Offender Assessment, Profiling, Sentence Planning & Intervention
Khanyisile Mpuang, National Programme Specialist: Offender Reintegration – the Case for Effective Offender Reintegration and Summary
Venessa Padayachee, National Programme Specialist: Community Victim Support, NICRO – Offender Reintegration and Rehabilitation – NICRO's Programme for Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence Powerpoint and Text versions
Sandy Hoffman, psychologist – Rehabilitation of Prisoners in a Transforming South Africa
Margaret Roper, independent researcher & evaluator – Emerging South African Approaches to Strengthen the Effectiveness of Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Juvenile Offenders
Workshop 12 — Working Effectively with Children in the Criminal Justice System
Milly Pekeur, Coordinator of the Child Witness Project, RAPCAN – Rapcan's Child Witness Project - Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
Gert Jonker, National Team Leader, Bethany House Trust - Intermediary Services For Child Witnesses Testifying In Criminal Court Proceedings. This document is an outline of the presentation. Copies of the presentation are available on request from David Bruce at dbruce@csvr.org.za. Note that the file is 44 megabytes in size.
Adv Maggie Tserere, Senior State Advocate, Sexual Offences and Community Affairs Unit, National Prosecuting Authority - Working Effectively with Children in the CJS
Arina Smit, National Programme Specialist: Diversion and Youth Development, NICRO - Turning the Child Justice Bill into Reality
Workshop 13 — Technology and CJS Transformation
Assistant Commissioner Piet du Toit, SAPS Criminal Record Centre - The Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and its impact on the CJS
Laurens Cloete, CSIR Information Society Technology Centre - Information and Communication Technology and the Criminal Justice System in 10 years time. [ 460 KB].
Dr Graham Wright, CSIR Crime Prevention Centre/Business Against Crime - The role of partnerships in leveraging technology in addressing organised crime
Workshop 14 — Challenges Facing the National Prosecuting Authority
Martin Schönteich, Senior Legal Officer, National Criminal Justice, Open Society Justice Initiative, New York – Challenges Facing the NPA
Iole Matthews, Independent Projects Trust and Mathew Smith, Strategy and Tactics - The National Prosecuting Authority A KZN Perspective - Challenges and
Possible Solutions
Workshop 15 — The Domestic Violence Act: Strengthening Implementation
Lisa Vetten, Programme Manager, Gender Programme, CSVR
Assistant Commissioner Susan Pienaar, Head: Social Crime Prevention, Division Crime Prevention, SAPS - Police Implementation of the DVA
Joyce Maluleke, Gender Directorate: Dept of Justice and Constitutional Development – Strengthening the Implementation of the Domestic Violence Act
Adv Tsidi Kambula, Senior State Advocate, Head of Domestic Violence Section, Sexual Offences and Community Affairs Unit, National Prosecuting Authority
Heléne Combrinck, Coordinator, Gender Project, Community Law Centre, UWC - Setting Standards: Domestic Violence, State Duties and Constitutional Jurisprudence
Antony Altbeker, Senior Researcher, Crime & Justice Programme, ISS - Policing Domestic Violence: the sympathy gap. [ 72 KB].
Facilitators: Lillian Artz & Dee Smyth, Gender, Health & Justice Research Unit University of Cape Town
