Quarterly Editions

First edition. Starting to practise compassionate confronting.

We lose Ulrike Hanekom after a short illness. Dr Marѐve Biljohn and Pascal Pienaar joins the team (as sub-editor and lay-out editor respectively). New lay-out starts in this edition.   

How wrong we were about our National Commissioners of Police! That, just as we receive horrible information from SA’s risk assessment by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC). 

Our research shows that people do not like bulky reading matter. This edition is consequently designed and developed appropriately. 

​We revisit Robert Fulghum’s All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten (1986) and ask questions. South Africa reaches position number 7 in the world (out of 193 countries) on the Organised Crime Index. We point out that 75 people are murdered per day in South Africa, in comparison to 16,6 people killed on average per day in the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

Combined with #integritasza conference at Hugenote Kollege, Wellington, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. ​

Increased load-shedding, soaring violent crime statistics, high costs for food and fuel, some releases from the ‘Zondo Commission’. Trying to confront compassionately.

The issue is dedicated to the 2022 #integritasza conference at Hugenote Kollege, Wellington, Western Cape Province of South Africa with conference title “Co-created Community-based Partnership Local Governance and Service Delivery in South Africa: Analysis, Action and Activism”. Ms Annalene van Heerden joins as Managing Editor. The Digital Compassionate Confronter, created and managed by Erwin Schwella, appears for the first time.

We provide some views on policing in South Africa after the widely reported “blue light brigade incident” that happened on 3 July 2023 in Gauteng Province. We address the habit of the media to confuse the terms “community policing forum” and “community police forum” through an open note to Brigadier Athlenda Mathe of the South African Police Service (SAPS).

The Confronter was published quarterly since inception. However, this edition is the last edition published quarterly. From 2024 onwards, contributions will be published on a rolling basis and distributed via email to a central address list.
From 2024 onwards, these contributions (published individually on a rolling basis) will be used to compile a single volume of the journal at the end of each year.