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 Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
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 Crime is tearing South Africa apart.
Whether it is hijacking or rape, a home robbery or a husband’s explosion of rage, violence is so common that few lives have been left untouched by it. The result is a society deformed by its fears. Closeted behind locked doors and high walls, panic buttons at the ready, members of the middle classes live lives haunted by fear. The poor, who are both more likely to be victimized and less able to secure themselves, are just as traumatized.
This is a penetrating exploration of South Africa’s crime problem. Getting behind the statistics to offer a sober and sobering account of the scale of the problem and its evolution, it describes how government has sometimes sought to deal with the crisis and sometimes sought to deny its existence. The book ends with some suggestions of what needs to be done to deal with this scourge.
“Altbeker hits the nail on the head.”
– Jonny Steinberg
Title: A Country At War With Itself: South Africa’s Crisis of Crime
Author: Antony Altbeker
ISBN: 978-1-86842-284-5
Format: Paperback
Pub Date: September
RRP: R110,00 |
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