EDITOR’S COMMENT
Lead the world in love “If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.” — Dolly Parton, singer and actress.
I
am constantly astounded by people. If I had my student years back, I’d probably study psychology in an attempt to understand why people behave as they do. Why some default to anger, hate and violence, and why others focus on being kind, positive and compassionate. After reading the news last weekend,
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SECURITY FOCUS AFRICA MAY 2022
which included crime incident after crime incident in South Africa, as well as the mass shooting of an estimated 13 people – mostly African American – in a New York supermarket on 14 May, by a White teen, I Googled ‘anti-hate organisations’. StopHateUK, HateCrime. Osce.Org, the EU High Level Group, The Community Security Trust, TellMAMA,
The Monitoring Group, EACH, Ditch The Label, Doras, ILGA Europe, Racist Violence and Recording Network 9RVRN) Polisen.se and the International Network for Hate Studies …the vast list of anti-hate
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