Tensions between the US and South Africa – this time over the terror alert – are nothing new. Their relations have always had highs and lows since South Africa became a democracy in 1994.
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The hybrid nature of threats to South Africa’s energy infrastructure can only be solved by an integrated solution, including severe sanctions that should include fines and imprisonment.
Historically, most mass shootings in South Africa have been associated with three main things: gang conflicts, rivalries in the minibus taxi sector and factional or inter-group feuds.
Perceptions that South African police treat people disrespectfully, lack impartiality or transparency, and are prone to brutality
undermine public confidence in them.
Parties must forego ideological rigidity and compromise for the common good, says Mpho Phalatse about making coalitions work.
An immediate police investigation into the deaths was prevented because the cause of death was indicated as ‘natural causes’ on their death certificates.
If proposed amendments to the law are passed, it will no longer be possible to acquire a firearm licence for self-defence in the country. This has sparked heated debate.
The army may help create a more stable and secure environment in the short term, but this is unlikely to result in sustainable and lasting peace.
South Africa can’t possibly remain the same country in the aftermath of this mayhem. There are just too many storms ahead to simply continue unchanged.
Instead of being a democratic right and legitimate form of expression, protests have increasingly been framed as threats to national security.
Policy makers need to protect and promote the interests of people whose indigenous knowledge and toil developed a thriving national cannabis economy - in the face of harsh police crackdowns.
Ramaphosa’s call for a new social compact will fall on deaf ears unless there are some fundamental changes to the way in which the pandemic is being managed.
It is not all democracies that struggle to deal with the coronavirus; it is those in which the people do not feel the system works for them.
President Ramaphosa’s emphasis on fighting crime is well placed. Most categories of violent crimes have risen dramatically over the past eight years.
The task team established to investigate political killings in KwaZulu-Natal has had little impact on exposing those behind the violence.
South Africa and Nigeria need to lead policy debates on long term measures to address migration in Africa.
Successes by the army and police on the Cape Flats will depend entirely on levels of cooperation established on an ad hoc basis.
The biggest problem with using the military to fight rime is that soldiers are not trained for law enforcement, but warfare, using maximum force.
The law aimed at fighting gangs lacks the power to disrupt their activities.
South African voters are worried about how their country is being run. Most still support the ANC but in far fewer numbers.
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cape Town
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Criminologist / Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Digital Society, University of Glasgow
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Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in Political Science, Nelson Mandela University
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PhD, University of Cape Town
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Professor in the Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Professor of Criminology, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Journalism in the Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg
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Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Citizenship at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Director of the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria
