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11 February 2005
Domestic Violence Seen As Minor
Gordon's Bay - Many police officers consider charges of domestic violence as minor and have little sympathy for those involved. This is according to Antony Altbeker, senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies's crime and justice programme.
He was speaking at a crime seminar here and was specifically involved with a domestic-violence workshop organised by the Centre for the Study of Crime and Reconciliation (CSCR).
10 February 2005
Zimbabwe: Spy Case a Sign of Historical Tensions With Pretoria
The espionage case in which three Zimbabweans were jailed this week for selling state secrets to South Africa has underlined a historical tension between the two neighbours, according to analysts...
...'The ANC had to gather information through covert means to understand the developments within the ZANU-PF,' said Chris Maroleng, an analyst with South Africa's Institute for Security Studies.
South Africa: Fewer Guns Around After Cops Clamp Down
South Africa's efforts to clamp down on the use of illegal firearms has started to pay off as authorities record a drop in the number of reported violent crimes, a new study has found.
With more than two million legal gun owners, the volume of registered firearms - close to four million - gave the country among the highest rankings for gun ownership per capita. Of concern, however, was that South Africa was also one of the world's leaders for the number of weapons lost or stolen - recognised as an important source of illegal firearms.
Research conducted by the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) focused on Operation Sethunya ('firearm' in the Sotho language), the largest ever police effort to confiscate illegal firearms and check legal owners' compliance with gun laws.
09 February 2005
SA Violent Crime 'Far Too High'
Gordon's Bay - During the duration of a three-day conference at this seaside resort, 74 people in South Africa will be murdered...
...Anton du Plessis, chief of the crime and justice programme at the Institute for Safety Studies, said 33% of all crimes in the country were violent ones.
Renewed Pleas for Early Releases to Alleviate Prison Crowding
The call for the early release of low-risk prisoners by the chairman of Parliament's portfolio committee on correctional services, Dennis Bloem, is another attempt to solve the perpetual problem of overcrowding. SA has 180000 inmates housed in prisons built to accommodate 114000...
...Makubetse Sekhonyane, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, says it is clear that locking people up does not solve the problem of crime - and could even make matters worse.
Zim Jails Spies
Harare - A senior Zimbabwean diplomat was sentenced to six years in jail and two officials given five-year sentences on Tuesday for selling secrets about President Robert Mugabe's party to South Africa, a court source said...
...'The main point of leverage for encouraging change in Zimbabwe is within the ruling party,' said Chris Maroleng of the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies.
08 February 2005
Launch of the Southern African Information Portal on Corruption (IPOC)
This portal provides Anti-Corruption practitioners (in government and the private sector), researchers, policy makers and civil society activists - concerned with combating corruption in Southern Africa - with 'an entry point' into anti-corruption activities in the region. Civil society anti-corruption organisations signalled the need for such a portal as far back as 2002 in a meeting in Zimbabwe and the ISS Cape Town Anti-Corruption project is attempting to meet this demand by broadening the scope of the document database previously made available on the ISS website.
IPOC seeks to provide users with:
- A searchable database of almost 1000 documents about corruption and anti-corruption strategies in Southern Africa - many of which can now be downloaded in full.
- Detailed case studies of major ground-breaking attempts to tackle corruption in Southern Africa including relevant legal documents, research reports, newspaper clippings and web links. This is a unique attempt to provide researchers with a full picture of these important events, helping to understand the complexity of anti-corruption initiatives.
- Contact details and links to selected civil society organisations, research institutes and academic institutions active in anti-corruption work. Selected and private sector links will be added in due course.
- News of upcoming events in the region.
- Highlights of new anti-corruption initiatives launched by governments, the private sector and civil society in Southern Africa and globally.
Links to all ISS publications dealing with corruption including: Monographs, Papers, Conference Proceedings and a newsletter - Umqol' Uphandle - SA Corruption Briefing.
For more information, please contact Hennie van Vuuren (hvanvuuren@issct.org.za), tel: (021) 461 7211.
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07 February 2005
"Shadow Review" Report on APRM Launched
Accra, Feb. 4, GNA - Seven African Non-Governmental Research Organizations under the umbrella of African Human Security Initiative (AHSI) on Thursday launched a "Shadow Review" report on the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)...
...ASDR of Ghana, South Africa Institute for International Affairs; Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa; Southern Africa Human Rights Trust; African Peace Forum; Institute for Security Studies and the West African Network for Peace, undertook the study, which was sponsored by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)."
Malawi: Ministers question proposals from IMF
Two ministers have doubted the importance of establishing a financial intelligence unit as proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation which came to Malawi a month ago...
...Countries that don't have the unit are unlikely to systematically develop capacity to aggregate financial information about suspect sources, said Banda, who has become an authority in anti-money laundering issues and is resident representative for South African based money laundering watchdog Institute for Security Studies (ISS).
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