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Violent Crime in South Africa (21.11.10)

ELIZABETH JACKSON: South Africa has a reputation for being one of the most violent societies on earth.A newly completed study has found that the country has a culture of violence. Disturbingly, among those ...

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Police Ignored As Mob Justice Rules the Townships (15.11.10)

Cape Town — Over five days, from November 2 to November 6, a man was tied up and beaten to death and three other seriously injured in three separate incidences of vigilante attacks ...

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'Disappointed' at no magic wand to wave away crime (15.11.10)

MEMBERS of Parliament’s police committee, the new Deputy Minister of Police Maggie Sotyu and police secretariat officials pronounced themselves disappointed this week when the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation’s ...

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Shift focus to policing crime (12.11.10)

A report by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) about the violent nature of crime in South Africa has ‘not revealed anything new.’ However, according to crime researcher Eldrid ...

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Police release violence report, adds it leaves main question unanswered (11.11.10)

The Ministry of Police has released a report by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) on the nature of violent crime in South Africa, but has told ...

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Police deputy minister says courts racist (11.11.10)

DEPUTY Police Minister Maggie Sotyu says South Africa's courts are racist because black criminals receive harsher sentences than their white counterparts, Beeld newspaper reported today (November 10). Sotyu said a white farmer who ...

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Criminal justice system 'racist' (11.11.10)

Cape Town - The new deputy police minister has described South Africa’s criminal justice system as racist, saying it needs to be transformed as black criminals are given harsher sentences than their white ...

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