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Understanding impunity in the South African law enforcement agencies
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2013)
This paper analyses the underlying structural and functional reasons for de facto impunity in South African law enforcement with specific reference to the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Department of Correctional ...
The betrayal of Steve Biko – South Africa’s initial report to the UN Committee against torture and responses from civil society
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2008)
This article will focus on State Party obligations in respect of reporting to the UN Committee against Torture (the Committee) under article 19(1)17 of CAT and more particularly on civil society’s interaction with the ...
National Colloquium on Access to Food for Students in South African Tertiary Institutions: Challenges of Hunger among Students in Higher Education in South Africa (13–14 August 2018)
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2018)
Student hunger on university campuses has gained prominence ever since the #FeesMustFall movement spread across South Africa’s tertiary
institutions in 2015. Although there are no definite statistics on the extent of the ...
Novel phages of healthy skin metaviromes from South Africa
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
Recent skin metagenomic studies have investigated the harbored viral diversity and its possible
influence on healthy skin microbial populations, and tried to establish global patterns of skin-phage
evolution. However, ...
Revisiting the role of the ‘expert other’ in learners’ acquisition of workplace competence
(UKZN, 2017)
Skills development policies in South Africa and further afield consider learning in and from
the workplace as critical to the training of artisans at intermediate level, bringing together
theoretical learning undertaken ...
Language learners as cultural tourists: Development potential of the English language learning tourism market in South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2017)
Travel in order to learn English has become an enormous global industry, and in recent years
South Africa has started to feature more prominently in the plans of English language learning
tourists from all over the world. ...
Farm workers and farm dwellers in Limpopo, South Africa: Struggles over tenure, livelihoods and justice
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
Stories about farm workers and dwellers losing their homes, land and livelihoods are common in contemporary South Africa, and also in Limpopo Province. Around 1988, Grace M.1 and her children were evicted from a Limpopo ...
The governance of national community health worker programmes in low- and middle-income countries: an empirically based framework of governance principles, purposes and tasks
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018)
BACKGROUND: National community health worker (CHW) programmes are increasingly regarded as an integral component of primary healthcare (PHC) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). At the interface of the formal health ...
'A short history of time' charting the contribution of social development service delivery to enhance child justice 1996-2006
(Journal of Social Work, 2007)
The starting point of this article has been selected as 1996 for several reasons. That year was characterised by three signal events in the history of child justice in South Africa. First, 1996 heralded the adoption of the ...
Juvenile justice review 1999-2000
(South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 2001)
The two years covered in this review have seen major developments in the juvenile justice sphere. Not only have several important judicial decisions been handed down, but the process of law reform has advanced significantly ...