Jack-asses And Jackrollers: Rediscovering Gender In Understanding Violence
This paper examines violence and its explanations in contemporary South Africa, with a focus on gender.
19 Feb 1992
Gender-based Violence Tag
Overcoming Endemic Violence Against Women
This article seeks to ensure that gender oppression, and in this case particularly the problem of violence against women in South Africa, is given the consideration it deserves in the construction of a new democratic society free of oppression.
03 Jan 1991
The Best Kept Secret: Violence Against Domestic Workers
This paper seeks to uncover the different forms of violence against domestic workers within their workplace, largely using the reports on the experiences of victims.
25 Jul 1990
Violent Crime: Rape
The author notes that developing an understanding of a rapist is central to the formulation of a science of rape. By accomplishing the latter, better preventive measures can be devised so as to significantly limit the incidence of rape in our society. This chapter, which seeks to do so, is based on interviews with nine rapists who all lived in Riverlea, a "coloured" township on the south-western border of Johannesburg. Five of the rapists had been convicted of rape. Four only admitted to rape in the course of the interview.
03 Feb 1990
The Meaning Of Rural Political Violence: The Meaning Of The Anti-witchcraft Attacks
This paper attempts to unpack the reasons surrounding the anti-witchcraft attacks preceding the 12 May 1986 Brooklyn Trust Land, Mapulaneng, mass meeting that was held on the local soccer field. It analyses the political effectiveness of the Brooklyn Youth Organisation.
29 Mar 1989