As might have been predicted there has been a high level of controversy around last week's Constitutional Court judgment, dealing with the use of lethal force in effecting arrest, in the case of s v ...
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Should there be any circumstances where a person is lawfully able to kill another human being?Killing to defend someone is clearly legally justified in South Africa. In 1995 in the case of S v Makwanyane, ...
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Once again Racism will receive unprecedented attention at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban later this month.This concerted effort of different countries to meet for the purpose of having such discussions is indicative of ...
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"I don't know if you've seen Yizo Yizo?" asks Morris (not his real name), a recently released ex-prisoner who has spent close to three decades in South African prisons. He is explaining to us how ...
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The BBC programme "Cage of Dreams" screened on Special Assignment on Tuesday 22 May 2001 illustrates the extent to which violence has become an institutional culture within prisons. The prison authorities have done little more ...
Read More Last year's Christmas Day assassination of a married couple Yusuf and Fahiema Enous who were to testify as witnesses in a Pagad related bombing trial made headline news for a couple of important reasons. On ...
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Racism, Brutality and Corruption are the Key Human Rights Challenges Facing the Transformation of the SAPS
An appreciation of human rights has failed to take proper root throughout the SAPS despite the transformation that has so far taken place. Key indicators that reflect this unfortunate reality can be found in the ...
Read More The recent dog unit incident highlighted a number of problems confronting police transformation. While much of the attention was on the serious issue of racism in the police, some of the other broad challenges confronting ...
Read More On November 25 1993, International Day of No Violence Against Women, a tiny crowd of 10 took to the streets. By November 25 1999, public opinion had changed so much that hundreds of people turned ...
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