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Paddy Reid spent thirty years working in some of the poorest communities in the United States – mainly in the Deep South – as a handyman, prison visitor and outreach worker. He recounts his encounters with some of the remarkable people he met along the way – and their resilience in the face of grinding poverty.
Mob Justice and the New Vigilantism in South Africa
by Karl Kemp
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781776390458
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Pub Date: 2024-08-08
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Penguin Random House South Africa
376 Pages
Why do so many South Africans prefer taking the law into their own hands to relying on the police? Why are those who do so often cheered or sympathized with? Of the unprecedented 27,000 recorded murders...
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