South Africa's cash-in-transit epidemic ... organising the gangs and the guns needed to carry out the heists, despite being in prison. A car riddled with bullet holes was found near this attacked ...

The narrative of criminality is dangerous. It dehumanises destitute people, who are forced into informal mining to escape ...

Simphiwe Xako’s debut novel, Hosh Nongoloza—Kill or Be Killed, plunges readers into the brutal world of Pollsmoor Prison.

Xako shares that he worked as a journalist for South African newspapers ... He said he soon learnt how prison life had shaped some into hardened gang members and the sensation of politicians ...