The cases of Oscar Pistorius and Farouk Meyer are crucially similar. Both are characterized by murder, guns, police tampering and contamination of evidence. However, the men are nothing alike, one is a white paralympian and the other a coloured Eldorado Park car salesman... Produced by Paul McNally for Wits Justice Project. Broadcast on community radio station Thetha FM (100.6) on “The Wits Justice Show” on the 1st of April 2014. Also published on SABC On-line on the 3rd of April 2014.
Produced by Paul McNally for the Wits Justice Project.
Produced by Paul McNally for the Wits Justice Project. Originally broadcast on the 27th of August as a feature on The Wits Justice Show on Thetha FM (100.6).
We chatted to Professor Malcolm Evans on how we can prevent torture in South Africa. He works for the United Nations as the Chair of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture, he helped write South Africa's guidelines on torture prevention and he works on protecting the rights of people worldwide who have been put in detention. Produced and presented by Paul McNally for The Wits Justice Project. Podcast released: 03 September 2014.
The Wits Justice Project is holding a Symposium on the Prevention of Torture on the 28th and 29th of August 2014. In preparation WJP Project Coordinator Nooshin Erfani-Ghadimi came into the studio to discuss the symposium, why South Africa has taken 13 years to make torture a crime (when before the torturer would only be charged with Grievous Bodily Harm) and how we can get more people to speak out about this extreme kind of violence. Produced and presented by Paul McNally for The Wits Justice Project. Podcast released: 22 August 2014.