| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 200 pages) : illustrations |
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New African histories series |
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New African histories series.
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| Contents |
Urban violence in South Africa -- The anatomy of the Marashea -- Making a living : survival in South Africa -- Urban battlegrounds -- Marashea on the mines : the expansion era -- Vigilantism, "political" violence, and the end of apartheid |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gangs -- South Africa -- History
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Violence -- South Africa -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Gangs
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Violence
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Gewalt
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Apartheid
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Bande
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South Africa
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Südafrika <Staat>
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780821441565 |
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0821441566 |
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