The main criticism leveled at the body that oversees the work of South Africa's elite police unit, the Hawks, is that it lacks the power to initiate investigations, making it ineffective.
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Two musicals set in working class mining communities -- one in the UK and the other in South Africa -- have diametrically opposed messages: one of hope; the other, despair.
Do Americans view all youth as equally 'innocent'? A historian takes us back to the movement that led to unequal treatment of black and white youth in the justice system.
Mark Duggan was shot by the police in 2011, but it took two-and-a-half years to complete an inquest into his death.
A historian examines what it means to value black life, then and now.
The heavy-handed tactics used by Uganda's authorities during the 2016 elections have raised questions about a return to an oppressive past.
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Senior Lecturer, Wayne State University
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Post Doctorate Researcher under the DANIDA funded project on security, sustainable growth and peace in Uganda., University of Copenhagen
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Alberta
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Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology, Norwich University
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Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Modern History, University of York
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Professor, Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg
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Director of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge and Professor of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg
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Vising Researcher, Global Governance Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Consultant World Health Organisation Health Security, Professor and Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice Western Sydney University and Senior Research Associate of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg, Western Sydney University
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
