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South Africa's Rampaging Murder Rate: Gangs, Corruption and State Capture

2024/7/23
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Sean Williams和Danny Gold讨论了南非当前的犯罪浪潮，指出其根源在于自上而下的腐败，从政府高层到街头帮派，都参与其中。他们详细讲述了开普敦市政官员Wendy Cloppers被谋杀的事件，这起事件突显了南非根深蒂固的腐败和暴力，以及有组织犯罪对各个部门的控制，以及警方与罪犯之间的勾结。他们还探讨了种族隔离制度的持续影响，特别是其对开普敦贫民区黑人和混血种人的影响，以及由此造成的帮派活动猖獗。此外，他们分析了Gupta家族与前总统Zuma之间的腐败关系，以及由此造成的‘国家被捕获’现象，对南非经济和社会稳定造成的严重破坏。最后，他们总结了南非目前面临的诸多挑战，包括暴力犯罪、基础设施匮乏、失业率高涨等，并指出这些问题与‘国家被捕获’和长期存在的社会经济不平等密切相关。 Sean Williams和Danny Gold还讨论了非法采矿活动在南非的盛行，以及由此造成的大量人员伤亡和经济损失，以及政府干预措施的收效甚微。他们指出，尽管南非面临诸多挑战，但Wendy Cloppers案的审判以及对相关人员的起诉，为打击犯罪和腐败带来了一线希望。

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South Africa's transition from apartheid to a democratic state in the 1990s was initially met with high hopes, but those dreams have since crumbled due to widespread corruption, gang violence, and state capture by elites. This chapter details the rise of a construction mafia, the murder of a city official, and the subsequent pursuit of justice, highlighting the deep-seated issues of corruption and violence that plague the nation.

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When Nelson Mandela and the ANC delivered South Africa from Apartheid in the 90s, hopes were high that the country could become a beacon of freedom and fairness. A generation later, those dreams lie in tatters. Elites have plundered state coffers to the tune of billions, mines have been taken over by illegal “chancers,” and the ghettoes of South Africa’s largest city, Cape Town, are suffering levels of violence unseen since segregation.

Left with few opportunities, corrupt cops and hundreds of gangs, locals have turned to private security firms, the country’s new boom trade. Others have thrown up roadblocks and christened whip-wielding vigilante groups, as the country descends into ever more hellish levels of organized crime.

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