Formerly an anti-apartheid activist and member of the Mass Democratic Movement working to promote peaceful structural change in South Africa, Eldred De Klerk is Programme Manager of the Policing Programme at the Graduate School of Public and Development Management at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.

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Accord Issue 13: Public participation

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