We Are Fighting the World

A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999

Autor: Gary Kynoch

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Ohio University Press

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Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and a...

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Autor

Gary Kynoch

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2005

strony

240

EAN

9780821416150

ISBN

0821416154

Enbook ID

04935446

Wydawca

Ohio University Press

Waga

453

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 20

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Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa's gold mining areas. With thousands of members involved in drug smuggling, extortion, and kidnapping, the Marashea was more influential in the day-to-day lives of many black South Africans under apartheid than were agents of the state. These gangs remain active in South Africa. In We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999, Gary Kynoch points to the combination of coercive force and administrative weakness that characterized the apartheid state. As long as crime and violence were contained within black townships and did not threaten adjacent white areas, township residents were largely left to fend for themselves. The Marashea's ability to prosper during the apartheid era and its involvement in political conflict led directly to the violent crime epidemic that today plagues South Africa. Highly readable and solidly researched, We Are Fighting the World is critical to an understanding of South African society, past and present. This pioneering study challenges previous social history research on resistance, ethnicity, urban spaces, and gender in South Africa. Kynoch's interviews with many current and former gang members give We Are Fighting the World an energy and a realism that are unparalleled in any other published work on gang violence in southern Africa.

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