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We are fighting the world : a history of the Marashea gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999
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ISBN: 0821416162 9780821441565 0821441566 0821416154 9780821416150 9780821416167 1869140729 9781869140724 Year: 2005 Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,

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Since the late 1940's, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa's gold mining areas. With thousands of members involved in drug smuggling, extortion, and kidnapping, the Marashea was more influential in the day-to-day lives of many black South Africans under apartheid than were agents of the state. These gangs remain active in South Africa. In We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999, Gary Kynoch points to the combination of coercive force and administrative weakness that characterized


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Township Violence and the End of Apartheid : War on the Reef
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ISBN: 178744337X 1787443361 1847012124 Year: 2018 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand.

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