Give Us More Guns

Give Us More Guns
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Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781868428793
ISBN-13 : 1868428796
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Book Synopsis Give Us More Guns by : Mark Shaw

Download or read book Give Us More Guns written by Mark Shaw and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'With remarkable courage, insight and access, Mark Shaw takes the reader into the darkest corners of South Africa's ganglands.' – Mandy Wiener The assassination of police investigator Charl Kinnear in Cape Town in 2020 was yet one more in a spate of murders related to the so-called 'guns to gangs' saga, in which state weapons are sold to South Africa's criminal underworld. It began in 2007 when Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo and his cronies began selling thousands of decommissioned police weapons to gang lords. Prinsloo's motive: to fund his son's university fees. The sale of weapons to criminals, which the police service has tried to downplay, has resulted in a killing spree of unprecedented proportions. Cape Town is now one of the most violent places on earth, and in 2019 the army was called in to patrol gang-infested areas. Give us more Guns, based on hundreds of interviews with police, experts and the gangsters themselves, tells the story of this callous crime for the first time. Mark Shaw explores how the guns get into the hands of South Africa's crime bosses and describes the bloodshed that ensues. He also uncovers accounts of rampant corruption within the police and in the state's gun-licensing system, probing the government failure that has been instrumental in arming the country's gangsters.


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