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  1. ANALYSIS | Jean Redpath: State capture cases - Convictions with heavy sentences needed, not amnesty

    There is ample domestic and international evidence suggesting that the longer a case is delayed, the less likely is a conviction, as memories fade, evidence is ...

    Located in ACJR Publications
  2. Op-Ed: Ngcobo is but one example of policing gone wrong

    The events of Ngcobo are portrayed as unusual, maybe because few realise that rural former Transkei has a very high murder rate. Yet the South African Police ...

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  3. Op-ed: Number of awaiting-trial prisoners increases under lockdown

    At the start of SA’s lockdown, prisoners were released in a bid to reduce transmission of Covid-19 in prisons. The emphasis was on sentenced persons via ...

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  4. Op-ed: Prisons, overcrowding and preventing Covid-19 transmission

    Over 163,000 people are in correctional facilities in South Africa. Outbreaks of Covid-19 in these prisons can have catastrophic consequences for both ...

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  5. Op-ed: Inadequate and violent policing in KwaZulu-Natal: What's behind it?

    KwaZulu-Natal has long suffered from inadequate, corrupt and violent policing. Recent events have simply made it more obvious. The problem of policing in the ...

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  6. Op-ed: COVID-19: Prisons, overcrowding and preventing transmission Located in Resource centre
  7. Op-ed: When the rich buy indemnity, justice is denied

    How much discretion does a prosecutor have to decline to prosecute? Is mediation always a good thing? Is there sometimes an obligation to prosecute? Does ...

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  8. Op-ed: The 81% matric pass rate of prisoners is nothing to crow about as the number of convicts writing the exam is frightful

    The number of prisoners writing matric is so frightfully small that we are left pondering how this is even possible 27 years into democracy. The fewer than 200 ...

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  9. Op-ed: Law enforcement and DUI — how to curb South Africa’s road crash epidemic

    The severity of the punishment, if caught, is not a deterrent to committing crime. If consumers of alcohol can be fairly certain that if they get behind the ...

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  10. ANALYSIS : Two Zondo Commission reports are out. What now for the NPA? By Jean Redpath

    Given the NPA's track record so far, a drastic departure from the current approach appears to be necessary when dealing with prosecuting those implicated in ...

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