Reintroducing death penalty will be ‘misplaced, dangerous’

Opinion and Mary de Haas|Published

OPINION: Were South Africa to reintroduce the death penalty, there is little doubt that it would be poor people-not criminal politicians-who would face the gallows ...

CRIME: Prospects for 2018

Mary de Haas|Published

Like the placing of rocks on roads, this is not a new phenomenon and it is disgraceful that despite deaths, no preventive steps have been taken.

Casspirs: A reminder of SA's bad days

Mary de Haas|Published

In South Africa a Casspir is, above all, a symbol of the brutal repression by the apartheid state of pro-liberation resistance in the townships in the 1980s, says ...

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