Nongoloza's Children

Nongoloza's Children: Western Cape Prison Gangs During and After Apartheid, a book written as a monograph about the gangs from prisons of the Western Cape during and after racial isolation, was written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation by Jonny Steinberg.[1][2] It explores the prevalence of gangs in society and in prisons and offers recommendations for solving post-apartheid gang violence.[2]

Overview

The author writes that he spent nine months of research at PollsMoor Prison Admission Center. There he interviewed the prisoners, most of whom were awaiting trial. For an 18-month period he interviewed about 30 veterans members of gangs. During the 1980s and 1990s all of them served their sentences in prisons throughout the Western Cape.[3][4]

According to Steinberg, The Numbers Gangs take their inspiration from the historical figure Nongoloza Mathebula, born Mzuzephi Mathebula, who became the founder of The Number Gangs in South Africa. An early Johannesburg bandit, he built a quasi-military band of outlaws, welding his small army together with a simple but potent ideology of banditry-as-anti-colonial-resistance.[3][4]

About the author

Jonny Steinberg – is a writer, scholar and a professor of African Studies that joined the African Studies Center in October 2011. Was born in March 22, 1970 (47 y.o.) in Johannesburg, South Africa.[5]

He is an author of several books about day-to-day life in the wake of South Africa's transition to democracy. Much of his work explores people that live in South Africa and prisons, police, clinics and farms in this conditions.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Jonny Steinberg. "Nongoloza's Children: Western Cape prison gangs during and after apartheid" (PDF). Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. p. 1.
  2. 1 2 "Nongoloza's Children". Center for Security Studies, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. July 2004. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Twidle Hedley (2012). ""In a Country where You couldn't Make this Shit up"?: Literary Non‐Fiction in South Africa". Safundi. 13: 5–28. doi:10.1080/17533171.2011.642586.
  4. 1 2 Altbeker Antony (2005). "BOOK REVIEWS". African Security Review. 14: 135–143. doi:10.1080/10246029.2005.9627345.
  5. 1 2 African Studies Centre. School of interdisciplinary area studies


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