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Keep soft targets away from jail rapists: MPs (15.04.10)

By Siyabonga Mkhwanazi Prisoners vulnerable to sexual assault - youths, first-time offenders, poor, gay and transgender convicts - should not be locked up with habitual prisoners and prison gangsters, MPs have told ...

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MPs outraged by report on jail rapes (15.04.10)

A report on the News24 site notes that MPs have demanded to know what action the correctional services department will take to stamp out sexual violence in men's prisons after receiving a 'shocking' ...

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Correctional service portfolio grilled in parliament (15.04.10)

By Khanyisa Tabata Members of parliament are demanding to know what action the correctional services department will take to stamp out sexual violence in men's prisons. The Correctional Services Committee expressed dismay ...

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MPs demand course of action on prison rapes (14.04.10)

MPs have demanded to know what action the correctional services department will take to stamp out sexual violence in men's prisons after receiving a "shocking" report that details sodomy and forced "marriages". ...

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Prison rapes shock MPs (14.04.10)

By Sapa MPs demand to know what action the correctional services department will take to stamp out sexual violence in men's prisons after receiving a "shocking" report that details sodomy and forced ...

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'Don't use stats to assess police' (09.04.10)

MEASURING police performance through crime statistics could give rise to perverse incentives, according to two researchers. “Police performance in South Africa is largely measured on the basis of whether crime is increasing or ...

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Current Racial Tensions in South Africa Symptomatic of Deeper Issues, says Analyst (08.04.10)

By Joe DeCapua The murder of white supremacist Eugene Terre’Blanche has brought to the forefront simmering racial tensions in South Africa.  Despite the end of apartheid and the first democratic elections in ...

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