By Don Pinnock
Cape city is 2 towns. One is gorgeous past imagining, identified because its starting because the 'fairest cape' on this planet. right here travelers come to front room on shorelines, scale misty peaks and dine in wonderful eating places. the opposite is likely one of the most deadly towns on the earth, the place police want bullet-proof vests and infrequently military backup. right here gangs of younger males rule the evening with heavy calibre handguns, allotting heroin, cocaine, crystal meth and worry. this is often the tale of the second one urban… In Gang city, investigative journalist and criminologist Don Pinnock attracts on greater than thirty years of study to supply a nuanced and definitive portrait of children stuck up in violent crime.
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This was not a story I could find in history textbooks but in government regulations, Acts of Parliament, political pronouncements, council minutes, sketches of urban planners and the drawing boards of state architects. What emerged was a shadowy, sinister gantry of urban social control. Urban racial segregation For much of South Africa’s urban history, voices could be heard clamouring for residential separation and economic protection from people of colour. Until the 1940s these pressure groups – mainly traders and workers of European origin – were given only passing attention by governments dominated by mining and agricultural interests.
And the Globe was up for hire as a political hit-force as well. Radical teacher organisations and the Communist Party were occasionally roughed up. An unpopular teacher would be ‘told to go or we’d slaughter him’, and members of the Communist Party would be ‘visited’ by Globe members, who would pretend to be drunk and ‘empty the fish bowl, drink all the wine and beer and those that didn’t sip would just pour it on the floor. And they’d say, “Come on, we’re the people and you’re supposed to be Communist.
They used to call on Mikey and the boys if they were having some trouble with another gang somewhere else, because they knew the Globe would be able to control the scene – especially with gangs like the Jesters or the Goofies. Mikey was so well known to the police and so respected, that he could stop a police van and release anybody he wanted to from it. Him and the boys helped the police. If they heard of a robbery somewhere, like at a liquor store, they’d take the liquor away from the skollies who stole it, and then invite the police around.
