Gangsterism: why are police failing?

Gang violence is an issue we have been discussing extensively on this show – and it continues to wreck havoc across the Cape Flats. While the police say their operations are proving successful, communities feel otherwise. Our reporters have spoken to many parents who say their young kids, seemingly good children, are being forced into gangsterism and as drug pushers. Why are authorities still struggling to break the grip of organised crime? Well that’s what we hope to unpack with Dr Kelly Gillespie, an anthropologist at Wits University…