Charting progress, mapping the future: Restorative justice in South Africa

Abstract

This publication is based on a project that sought to document current projects implementing restorative justice in South Africa; as is the case in many other countries, a number of significant attempts have been, made in this regard since the early 1990s. But what concrete progress has been made? Who is delivering direct restorative justice services to victims and offenders? What are the scope and quality of these services? What are the issues faced by these service providers? And who can the experiences of other countries help us respond to these and other similar, frequently-raised questions ? These were the kinds of question that the authors set out to try and answer in carrying out this project. The bulk of the text is found in Chapter Four, which contains a report from all of the more than sixty projects that were identified as relevant to the study. The reports are presented provincially, with a provincial summary at there end of each province's reports. Chapter Five...