UCT SaVI

The two-day online conference will reflect on the prospects of effective implementation of relevant evidence-based violence prevention interventions in South Africa.

SaferSpaces Webinar | Private Security’s Lines of Flight, 4 June 2021, 12:45-14:00 Join us this Friday as Dr Julie Berg and Prof Clifford Shearing explore how private security has adapted in responding to novel harmscapes. saferspaces.org.za/events/entry/s… via @safer_spaces

SaferSpaces Webinar | Alcohol and Violence Prevention: Steps and Approaches towards Alcohol Harms Reduction, Friday 28 May 2021, 12:45-14:00 saferspaces.org.za/events/entry/s… via @safer_spaces

Upcoming webinar tomorrow! This webinar will feature 2 of the authors of the Panel of Experts Report on Policing and Crowd Management. With presentations focusing on the challenges of public order policing, and the use of less lethal weapons and ammunition in crowd contexts.

Panellists: Guy Lamb, Safety and Violence Initiative, UCT / Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University Lizette Lancaster, Crimehub, Institute for Security Studies

SaferSpaces Webinar | Designing in Community Safety, Friday, 5 February 2021, from 12.45pm to 2pm Please RSVP to lauren.october@uct.ac.za saferspaces.org.za/events/entry/d… via @safer_spaces

Webinar | Swipe right for safety: Smartphone tech for community well-being, Friday, 29 January 2021, from 12.45pm to 2pm on MS Teams. Please RSVP to lauren.october@uct.ac.za saferspaces.org.za/events/entry/s… via @safer_spaces

African governments are quietly tightening laws to restrict social media @KarenAllenIntl for ISS Today on trends after Uganda’s election ow.ly/EuA850Db2qS

SaVI Director, Dr Guy Lamb, told News24 that acts of vigilantism have been an issue in South Africa for a long time and it indicated that communities did not trust the police to do their job. news24.com/news24/southaf… via @news24

Employing more police doesn't necessarily result in less crime, according to Dr Guy Lamb, former director of the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town. allafrica.com/stories/202009…

Police seize a large number of stolen firearms in Cape Town. Dr Guy Lamb, Director of the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town, said issues driving violent crime included access to illegal firearms and ammunition. iol.co.za/capeargus/news…

SaVI Director @guylamb discusses the benefits, drawbacks and unintended consequences of using CCTV as a crime prevention instrument

Dr Guy Lamb: If not been for the national socioeconomic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the corruption scandals associated with funding for relief measures, there most likely would have been a public outcry following the release of the 2019/2020 crime stats.

SaVI Director, Dr Guy Lamb: “Sadly, Cape Town is facing a violent crime crisis and it has not emerged out of nowhere. It has taken place over the years and dates far back to apartheid and colonial times” news.uct.ac.za/article/-2020-…

Join Professor Shanaaz Mathews 🔴Thursday 2 July @ 1pm #CTMOCINSTACHATS as she talks about the current state of violence against women and children in South Africa. #ctmocinstachats #violenceagainstwomen #violenceagainstchildren

Katharine Hall, a senior researcher at the Children’s Institute (UCT), noted in a supporting affidavit to the amicus curiae submissions, six million of South Africa’s 20 million children live in households with no employed adults. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0…

SaVI Director, Dr Guy Lamb, comments on How Cape Town became a murder capital | The Economist youtu.be/9Gy1VuHtQFs via @YouTube

SaVI steering committee member, Andrew Nicol, says there has been a two-thirds reduction in gunshot victim admissions since the start of the lockdown.capetalk.co.za/articles/38020… via @CapeTalk

SaVI Director Dr Guy Lamb writes about fear and policing in the time of covid19 m.news24.com/Columnists/Gue…