We are fighting the world : a history of the Marashea gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 /

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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 So...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kynoch, Gary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2005.
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
Gangs > South Africa > History.
Violence > South Africa > History.
Violence > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Gangs
Violence
Gewalt
Apartheid
Bande
South Africa
Südafrika <Staat>
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 apa.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 200 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
ISBN:9780821441565
0821441566

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