Give Us More Guns: How South Africa's Gangs were Armed

'It will terrify you but it's a story you must know.' - Mandy Wiener

It was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its consequences were devastating.

At least a thousand people died between 2011 and 2019 as a result of one senior police officer's criminal decision to sell a huge cache of guns. Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo, former head of the Gauteng firearm license division, and his network of cronies sold guns decommissioned by the SAPS to South Africa's gang lord...