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

`With remarkable courage, insight and access, Mark Shaw takes the reader into the darkest corners of South Africa's ganglands.' - Mandy Wiener

The assassination of police investigator Charl Kinnear in Cape Town in 2020 was yet one more in a spate of murders related to the so-called `guns to gangs' saga, in which state weapons are sold to South Africa's criminal underworld.

It began in 2007 when Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo and his cronies began selling thousands of decommissioned police weapon...