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Africa’s a Country [RSS] @africasacountry 3/02/2017

#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-south-africa
The cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire.  Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]
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Africa’s a Country [RSS] @africasacountry 2/02/2017

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#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-cape-town
The cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire.  Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]
#CULTURE #Books #Cape_Town #gang_culture #Literature #police #reviews

Africa’s a Country [RSS] @africasacountry
- Fil @fil 3/02/2017
  
  Gang Town’s focus on Cape Town’s  longue  durée corruption of the social fabric of working class  communities (…) sketches a city that has repeatedly deformed and destroyed social institutions that would otherwise channel the natural rebellions of young people away from gangs, drug  abuse  and violence. In a particularly insightful passage Pinnocks describes how forced removals under the Group Areas Act ripped up “networks of streets, houses, corner shops and shebeens, but also social webs of kin, friendship
  #Afrique_du_Sud #tissu_social #apartheid #criminalité
  
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