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Antony Altbeker
What if apartheid didn’t do it?
”One reason the apartheid-did-it explanation doesn’t completely satisfy is that South Africans are not unique in the world in having gone through long periods of…
Think again, commissioner
Appearing before Parliament last month, Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi suggested that the time had come to close down the Independent Complaints Directorate, a…
Crime: So little bang for our bucks
”South Africa, as most everyone knows, has a lot of crime. What fewer people appreciate is that, at about 3% of gross domestic product (GDP), the R50billion we’ll spend on…
Change is fear
When ministers, spin doctors and police officers talk about crime, one is often struck by their tone of exasperation. They have what they believe to be a genuinely good news…