Violence keeps SA workers fearful and absent from work — survey

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The latest annual Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) violence survey, which was conducted among workers from crime hotspots in the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, found that 80% of respondents felt unsafe in their neighbourhood - a major increase compared to 61% last year.

Siwe Dhlamini, peace-building and conflict resolution trainer at WPDI, said: “This survey has confirmed what we have experienced in the communities. It has given us new insights, and has given us better tools to improve our work in communities. Not only that, but to be aware of factors that draw back development. At the end of the day, where there is violence there can never be development and peace, but in the absence of violence there can be development and there can be peace.

“It will take all of us ... corporates, politicians, NGOs, the media to really zoom in on this topic. A lot of things we have mentioned here talk about the affects and the question is: how do we stamp this out at the root?” Adams said corporates often dealt with the affect of these structural issues, but they needed to be part of a solution.

 

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