South Africa is no different to the world; domestic violence in South Africa is committed across geographical, religious, racial and gender boundaries. The Domestic Violence Act (DVA), No.116 of 1998 places positive legal duties on the South African Police Service to act. The South African ...
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Hence, the South African CRA included interpersonal violence as a risk factor [25, 26]. In line with the Global Burden of Disease 2005 [27] approach, we continue to use categorical attribution of deaths and DALYs to the interpersonal violence injury cause but also treat exposure to nonfatal ...
261Violence Prevention in aSouth African TownshipKOSTAMATHÉYSouth Africa’s townships count amongst the places with the highest indicesfor violence and crime worldwide. The causes for this are complex and spe-cific to the place; therefore attempts towards violence reduction necessarilyneed to be ...
TheSouth African War(1899–1902; also called the Boer War) suspended educational development entirely and confirmed the resolve of each white South African group to protect its own culturalprerogatives. When the Union of South Africa was created in 1910, it was a bilingual state, and thus both...
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of gender, particularly manhood, in the midst of the murders of other women, necessitates that we recognize the connections, make the links, to understand the operations of systemic violence brought to different kinds of women, gender non-conforming peoples, and girls, in South African society....
This paper seeks to look at some of these issues, locating restorative justice within a context of the high prevalence of domestic violence in South Africa. It aims to look at the inter-relationship between VOC and the objectives of the Domestic Violence Act. It also looks at the ...