Gaz reflects on his journey during an interview in his home, August 2022.
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Gaz the farmer clears his throat, and we begin again to talk about Gaz the gangster.
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In 2013 stories emerged of gangs stealing plasma TV screens to use to make street drugs. It’s a myth, but it tells us something about South Africa’s social anxieties.
Dolly Rathebe (centre) in detail of the album cover for Dolly Rathebe & Elite Swingsters.
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Her celebration of black life, black beauty and black humanity through her films and music was subversive.
Normal People.
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From run by gangster and drug-ridden to a place of sexual freedom and opportunity, a spate of new screen productions are rehabilitating Dublin’s image.
South African National Defence Force soldiers in Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats, Cape Town.
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Using the military continuously in internal roles for which it is not structured, funded or trained simply speeds up its decline.
Today’s gang violence on the Cape Flats can’t be divorced from Cape Town’s history of forced removals.
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Given the framework within which removals under the Group Areas Act took place in Cape Town, a social disaster was inevitable.
Some children from damaged homes and communities seek respect and power by joining gangs.
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Youngsters who grow up in a culture of anger and violence may be drawn to gangs, and schools then become fertile grounds for criminal behaviour.
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People have always loved a bit of old-fashioned villainy.
Dapper … and dangerous.
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The folklore of the Krays is recast in order to shine light on current attitudes toward crime deviance and in particular, violence.