Guns
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Editorial: SA must deal with gun violence
Ending gun violence requires a pragmatic approach that includes collaboration between the police and communities
Brash photographer Ernest Cole revisited
House of Bondage: The book that shocked the world
Illegal firearms fuel violent crime spike in Zimbabwe
Police report that between January and October last year, there were 922 armed robberies, up from 744 during the same period in 2020
Excavating the role of Africans in the creation of the modern world
Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without the continent’s natural resources and centuries of cheap African labour
Gun control in South Africa: tightening the law, and more
Improving firearms control legislation is clearly one such needed intervention to prevent the further diversion of legal guns into the hands of criminals
Simple interventions could cut violence against women
Measures such as better street lighting, training the police and enforcing gun control can effect real change
Under the power of the gun
Children in the Cape Flats see violence very early in their lives and many end up in jail or killed. One of them, now a reformed gangster, walks us through his early traumatic…