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23 September 2005
A spinner's paradise
...An Institute for Security Studies (ISS) researcher, Duxita Mistry, said crime statistics, like any other, were open to interpretation. 'You can put whatever spin you like on them and still be persuasive.'
Is SA really crime capital of world?
'Puzzling statistics: Is South Africa really the world's crime capital?', published in Issue 11 of the Crime Quarterly this year and written by Antony Altbeker of the Institute for Security Studies, casts doubt on this long-held assumption.
22 September 2005
14th World Congress of Criminology
Paper by Anton du Plessis: Crime, particularly violent crime, remains one of the key challenges facing South Africa and all its citizens. In 1994, the new post-apartheid government inherited these high crime levels together with a state machinery that was ill-equipped to deal with the problem.
SA now safer by degrees but few take comfort from improved figures
...But Anton du Plessis, head of the crime and justice programme at the Institute for Security Studies, says the public now feels twice as unsafe as it did in 1998.
Pretoria: City tops the crime stakes
...The head of the Institute of Security Studies' Crime and Justice programme, Anton du Plessis, said the number of cash-in-transit robberies occurring in and around the city was of concern, especially with more than a quarter of all Gauteng heists taking place in Pretoria.
Crime down, negative perceptions up
...'Crime in general has come down between 1994 and 2004. The public perception is contrary to that,' said Anton du Plessis, head of the crime and justice programme at the Institute for Security Studies.
HIV/AIDS Impacting Military Readiness Across African Continent
...South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies estimates that HIV prevalence rates among some African militaries are as much as twice the rate among the general population, although few militaries have reliable figures.
Heists, bank robberies, drug offences rockets
The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) says increased police operations targeting drug-related offenses, could be a major reason behind the drug-related crimes increased by a massive 33%, in the past financial year.
West Cape crime down
...But on the whole, says Antoinette Louw, senior researcher at the ISS, it's 'mostly good news' for the province.
Mugabe has failed to weaken his hold on power
...Chris Maroleng, a Zimbabwean citizen who addressed the center by videophone hookup from South Africa, said the African Union must speak out more forcefully against Mugabe. He added that South Africa, 'instead of providing support for Mugabe, should do nothing.'
21 September 2005
Zimbabwe: Succession issue fuelling attempts to bring polls in line, say analysts
...'It is obvious that the succession issue has not been resolved within the ZANU-PF, but the positive element is that the party has at least initiated discussions around it and they need some more time,' commented political analyst Chris Maroleng from the Institute for Security Studies, a South African think-tank.
SADC on track with peacekeeping brigade
...Money for the Peace Fund would come partly from the contributions of member countries to the AU budget, but the bulk would need to come from donors, said Institute for Security Studies executive director Jakkie Cilliers, who attended the seminar.
20 September 2005
US, South Africa Fight AIDS in Military
...Few African militaries have even tried to produce reliable figures, but their infection rates are estimated to be up to twice those in the wider population, according to the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies.
Looking for answers to unsolved murders
...Antony Altbeker, senior researcher for the Institute of Security Studies, said that more than 2 000 murders a year were not solved in KwaZulu-Natal.
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