Bestryding Van Onluste
Onlusorde Verw: S7/4/4(K) - Uitgereik deur Kompol Kaapstad en geteken deur Generaal J.V. Van Der Merwe
18 April, 1990
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The architects of the country's democracy expressed a determination to break with this past and recognise protest as a basic democratic right. Yet, today, there is concern about the violent nature of protests. Protest Nation challenges the dominant narrative that it has become necessary for the state to step in to limit the right to protest in the broader public interest because media and official representations have created a public perception that violence has become endemic to protests. Bringing together data gathered from municipalities, the police, protestor and activist interviews, as well as media reports, the book analyses the extent to which the right to protest is respected in democratic South Africa. It throws a spotlight on the municipal role in enabling or mostly thwarting the right. This book is a call to action to defend the right to protest: a right that is clearly under threat. It also urges South Africans to critique the often-skewed public discourses that inform debates about protests and their limitations. Jane Duncan is a professor in the Department of Journalism, Film and Television at the University of Johannesburg. She was the executive director of the Freedom of Expression Institute, and has written widely on freedom of expression, the right to protest and media policy. The book can be ordered from Amazon.com.
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In the last days of apartheid in South Africa an all out tribal war raged in the black townships. A brutal African war that claimed the lives of over 20 000 people over a period of 4 years. It was the bloodiest period in South Africa's history and remained largely hidden from the view of the South African white community and especially the rest of the world due to strict laws silencing the local and foreign media.
This is the autobiography of a police special unit section commander who was on the ground at the coal face of a bloody and violent conflict. Sacrificial mutilations, symbolic acts of murder and violence and widespread suffering of the township folk were witnessed first hand by Sergeant Nick Howarth, who tells his story in a clear graphic manner that will have you glued to your book from beginning to end. Kindle edition may be purchased at Amazon.com South Africa has been dubbed "the protest capital of the world", with one of the highest rates of public protests in the world. Source: Wikipedia
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During the 2004/05 financial year about 6,000 protests were officially recorded, an unknown number of protests went unrecorded, and about 1,000 protests were illegally banned. This meant that at least 15 protests were taking place each day in South Africa at this time. Source: Wikipedia
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In TROU TOT DIE DOOD TOE - DIE SUID-AFRIKAANSE POLISIEMAG heropen die laaste polisiekommissaris onder die ou bedeling, Johan van der Merwe, die verlede. Nie net verklap hy al die polisie se geheime rondom die stryd teen ANC-aktiviste en -terreur nie, maar hy gee ook 'n boeiende insig in die optrede van P.W. Botha, Adriaan Vlok, F.W. de Klerk, Pik Botha en ander politici van destyds.
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