GCRO Reports: Working Papers

Recent Reports

'Business as Usual': the response of the corporate sector to the May 2008 xenophobic violence
Annsilla Nyar
November, 2009

This report is part of a series of outputs from a research project commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies on the response of civil society to the May 2008 xenophobic violence. The principal focus of this report is the contribution of the corporate sector, with particular reference to the mining sector with its historical reliance on foreign labour. The paper also reflects broadly on civil society’s response to the xenophobic violence and looks to offer insights into the future of civil society activism as reflected through the lens of the xenophobic violence.

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The response of churches to the violence of 2008
Sizwe Phakathi
November, 2009

This report is part of a series of outputs from a research project commissioned by The Atlantic Philanthropies on the response of civil society to the May 2008 xenophobic violence. It examines the nature and extent of the response of Christian churches in Gauteng to the May 2008 xenophobic violence. It uses the perspective of church pastors and congregants who responded directly to the crisis, to ascertain the methods, intervention strategies and motivation behind the response of the churches.

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