Twenty three years into our democracy and South Africa still does not have a law criminalising hate motivated crimes. This in circumstances where incidents of race motivated crimes dominate the headlines every so often. The South African Hate Crimes Working Group has conducted the most comprehensive in-depth study on hate crime to date. They were unable to determine how widespread it is, but they established that police men and women, nurses and preachers are among the perpetrators. Candice Nolan has the details……