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Production Image Design 071 883 9359 Printing Remata Contents SA Crime Quarterly No. 55 | March 2016 Editorial Making sense of the duality of social cohesion ............................................................................................... 3 Vanessa Barolsky and Chandré Gould Research articles To be a somebody ............................................................................................................................................ 7 Probing the roots of community in District Six Don Pinnock Is social cohesion relevant to a city in the global South? ............................................................................. 17 A case study of Khayelitsha Township Vanessa Barolsky Pervasive, but not politicised ........................................................................................................................ 31 Everyday violence, local rule and party popularity in a Cape Town township Laurence Piper and Joanna Wheeler Facilitating or hindering social cohesion? ...................................................................................................... 41 The impact of the Community Work Programme in selected South African townships Malose Langa, Themba Masuku, David Bruce and Hugo van der Merwe Pulling us apart? ............................................................................................................................................ 49 The association between fear of crime and social cohesion in South Africa Benjamin Roberts and Steven Gordon Comfortably cosmopolitan? .......................................................................................................................... 61 How patterns of ‘social cohesion’ vary with crime and fear Anine Kriegler and Mark Shaw Editorial policy South African Crime Quarterly is an inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal that promotes professional discourse and the publication of research on the subjects of crime, criminal justice, crime prevention and related matters, including state and non-state responses to crime and violence. South Africa is the primary focus of the journal but articles on the above- mentioned subjects that reflect research and analysis from other African countries are considered for publication, if they are of relevance to South Africa. SACQ is an applied policy journal. Its audience includes policymakers, criminal justice practitioners and civil society researchers and analysts, including academics. The purpose of the journal is to inform and influence policymaking on violence prevention, crime reduction and criminal justice. All articles submitted to SACQ are double-blind peer-reviewed before publication. SA Crime QuArterly No. 55 • mAr 2016 A1 Editorial Making sense of the duality of social cohesion http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3108/2016/v0n55a763 This edition of South African Crime Quarterly is a special edition dedicated to investigating the role of social cohesion in understanding and addressing the problem of violence in South Africa. Social cohesion is a broad concept, but can be summarised briefly as referring to the factors that ‘hold a society together’.1 The term has been utilised to denote a broad array of social characteristics that are seen to contribute to connectedness and solidarity at local and national levels. These include common values and identity, feelings of belonging, citizen participation in common organisations, and community cooperation and interaction. It extends further to encompass those things that are necessary for sustaining (holding together) a democratic nation-state, such as political legitimacy and democratic participation. By implication, a society lacking cohesion would be one that displayed social disorder and conflict, disparate moral values, extreme social inequality, low levels of social interaction between and within communities, and low levels of place attachment – characteristics that are familiar to South Africa.2 Collective efficacy, a more recent development of the concept of social cohesion, refers to how social cohesion can prevent violence when it is translated into collective action for the ‘common good’ at neighbourhood level.3 While a lack of social cohesion is theorised to result in a state of disorder or conflict, low levels of social cohesion are also seen to undermine the effectiveness of crime prevention initiatives at local level. International studies have found that communities with the highest crime and violence rates are often those who are unable or reluctant to organise collaboratively as a result of lack of trust. But is this the case in South Africa? This edition of the SACQ seeks to critically interrogate the concept of social cohesion and its meaning in South Africa. Thus far, the leading policy and academic work on social cohesion and collective efficacy has taken place in countries in the global North and has been oriented to address the problems of division in these contexts. In South Africa, we face a different set of challenges in a country defined by its heterogeneity and inequality. One of our primary challenges is to determine how to constitute a new democratic nation-state, based on relationships of solidarity and connection between citizens, after the many decades of conflict and division that tore apart our social fabric and while inequality remains a stubborn feature of our landscape. While the term ‘social cohesion’ has been incorporated into government discourse over the past decade, and efforts have been made to indigenise the concept by incorporating local concepts such as ubuntu into our notion of social