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Title
Revisiting PAGAD Machoism or Islamism? |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/16835 |
Date
2002 |
Author(s)
Bangstad, S. |
Abstract
Two years after the first free elections in the history of South Africa, which brought the liberation movement to political power, a new twist was added to the seemingly ever-present violence of the gang-lands of Cape Town. A vigilante movement dominated by Cape Muslims, People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), launched a series of assassinations of local drug lords and vowed to free the postapartheid townships of the scourge of crime and drugs. Since autumn of the year 2000, PAGAD's militant actions have ceased to pose a security threat in Cape Town. Most of the militants of the movement are behind bars. But even long after the movement reached its zenith and decline, academics have failed to reach a consensus over what the peculiar phenomenon of PAGAD actually represented. |
Subject(s)
South Africa |
Language
en_US |
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden |
Type of publication
Article / Letter to editor |
Format
269862 bytes; application/pdf |
Source
11; 1; 10; 10; 1; ISIM Newsletter |
Repository
Leiden - University of Leiden
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