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Published in Monograph No 62, July 2001
Attitudes to Firearms, The Case of Kwa Mashu, Tsolo-Qumbo and Lekoa-Vaal

  1. V Gamba, The Southern African small arms control experience as a working model for the reduction of small arms proliferation, as contained in Governing Arms: The Southern African experience, Institute for Security Studies, 2000, pp 13-27.

  2. Commissioned in October 1997 by the ISS and administered by CASE in the community of Lekoa-Vaal.

  3. Meek, S The result of the Lekoa/Vaal Firearm Survey, chapter 6, as contained in Society Under Siege, Volume III, edited by Virginia Gamba, Institute for Security Studies, 2000, p 97-130.

  4. Hansmann, C An Analysis of Community-based responses to Armed Violence, chapter 7, as contained in Society Under Siege, Volume III, edited by Virginia Gamba, Institute for Security Studies, 2000, p 131-204.

  5. The following information is obtained from a viewing of the Special Assignment programme on Tsolo and Qumbo, as well as interviews with Makubetse Sikhonyane.

  6. Unpublished report, Project: Towards Collaborative Peace Fieldwork Report and tabulations, December 1997, CASE cited figures provided by the Lekoa/Vaal Metropolitan area.

  7. The police records mugging involving a firearm as armed robbery. In the three ?case study areas, at a community level, mugging is used inter-changeably with armed robbery. No information was collected on the proportion of firearms used in these incidents.

  8. E Hennop, 2000, Illegal Firearms in Circulation in South Africa, chapter contained in Society Under Siege, Volume III, edited by Virginia Gamba, Institute for Security Studies, 2000, p 18.

  9. The discourse in South Africa reflects over thirty-years of politically motivated violence in South Africa. In this survey, research references to violence imply 'political violence'.

  10. Similar information was elicited from the respondents on which actions they took to assist in community safety. However, it appeared that the responses were artificial as most respondents took action for their household, as opposed to their community.