MARK SHAW

With remarkable courage, insight and access, Mark Shaw takes the reader into the darkest corners of South Africas ganglands. Mandy WienerThe 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 Africas criminal underworld.It began in 2007 when Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo and his cronies began selling thousands of decommissioned police weapons to gang lords. Prinsloos motive: to fund his sons university fees. The sale of weapons to criminals, which the police service has tried to downplay, has resulted in a killing spree of unprecedented proportions. Cape Town is now one of the most violent places on earth, and in 2019 the army was called in to patrol gang-infested areas.Give us more Guns, based on hundreds of interviews with police, experts and the gangsters themselves, tells the story of this callous crime for the first time. Mark Shaw explores how the guns get into the hands of South Africas crime bosses and describes the bloodshed that ensues. He also uncovers accounts of rampant corruption within the police and in the states gun-licensing system, probing the government failure that has been instrumental in arming the countrys gangsters.

Hitmen for Hire takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of paid hitmen, informers, rogue policemen, criminal taxi bosses, gang leaders, and crooked politicians and businessmen. Criminologist Mark Shaw examines a society in which contract killings have become commonplace, looking at who arranges hits, where to find a hitman, and even what it is like to operate as a hitman or woman. Since 1994, South Africa has seen a worrying increase in the commercialisation of murder and has been rocked by several high-profile contract killings. Drawing on his research of over a thousand incidents of hired assassinations, from 2000 to 2016, Shaw reveals how these murders are used to exert a mafia-type control over the countrys legal and illegal economic activity. Contracted assassinations, and the organised criminal activity behind them, contain sinister linkages with the upperworld, most visibly in relation to disputes over tenders and access to government resources. State security actors increasingly mediate relations between the under and upper worlds, with serious implications for the long-term success of the post-apartheid democratic project.

¿Cansado de intentar poner en práctica la última novedad para hacer que la iglesia crezca?En muchas iglesias, tener visión significa abrazar las ideas del último vidente de turno y pasar de una programacion a otra. Las decisiones en el ministerio se toman de acuerdo a las necesidades o presiones del momento. La planificacion a largo plazo puede parecer un sueño imposible.Este libro ofrece algo diferente. Aqui tenemos ideas que han superado la prueba del tiempo, ideas de los lideres cristianos mas importantes de los ultimos quinientos años. Tu iglesia puede poner por obra algunas de las estrategias importantes de las vidas y escritos de los reformadores.- Consigue una vision de la verdad- Renueva tu busqueda de santidad.- Observa como deleitarse en Dios inspira tu adoracion.- Trae renovacion con un modelo biblico de avivamiento- Capacita a los responsables con un plan de discipulado que supere la prueba del tiempo.- Activa tu vision de la obra misionera.- Creced juntos con los principios clave de la comunidad cristiana.¿Y quienes componen el panel de expertos que guiaran tu nueva vision? Nada menos que Martin Lutero, Juan Calvino, Jonathan Edwards, William Carey, John Wesley, Richard Baxter, Dietrich Bonhoeffer y otros. Cada una de las diez grandes ideas que se encuentran en este libro proporciona una vision basada en la Biblia y arraigada en la historia que puede ser de ayuda para tu iglesia en su largo camino.¿Deseas revitalizar la obra de tu iglesia? Aqui tienes diez de las mejores ideas de la historia ara ello.Te sorprendera. Te presentara un desafio. Te instruira. Puede que hasta transforme tu vida cristiana (Mark Noll).

Mark Shaw is the foremost analyst of organised crime in SA. Jonny SteinbergAt the dawn of the countrys brave new democracy, Cape Town was at war. Pagad, which began as a community protest action against crime, had mutated into a sinister vigilante group wreaking death and destruction across the city. Between 1996 and 2001, there were hundreds of bomb blasts most infamously at the Planet Hollywood restaurant at the V&A Waterfront and countless targeted hits on druglords and gang bosses.The police scrambled desperately to respond. The new ANC government was shaken. Citizens of Cape Town lived in fear. Who could save the city?Mark Shaw tells the incredible tale of how former foes struggle cadres and the apartheid security apparatus pulled together to break the Pagad death squads. Out of this crisis emerged the elite law enforcement unit, the Scorpions.It is a story that has never been told in full. Now many involved have broken their silence about this pivotal chapter in South Africas history, which offers far-reaching lessons on how to deal with organised crime today.

South Africans care a lot about crime. We think and worry about it, plan and insure against it, develop and share theories about it, read about it, and talk about it a lot.But how much do we really know? Crime statistics do not belong to the government, academics, specialists, or the press. They are ours: we experience and report crimes and have a right to access and understand their official record. It should not take any particular expertise to get a grasp on what we should make of the figures and graphs that the South African Police Service produces every year.A Citizens Guide to Crime Trends in South Africa provides a basis on which to understand the statistics in a manner that is accessible to everyone. Each chapter challenges a set of oft-repeated assumptions about how bad crime is, where it occurs, and who its victims are. It also demonstrates how and why crime statistics need to be matched with other forms of research, including criminal justice data, in order to produce a fuller account of what we are faced with.

This stunning publication is the definitive collection of Mark Shaw''s renowned photographs of the Kennedys. More than fifty percent of the images have never been seen before and are the finest reproductions of Shaw''s work yet seen in print. For the first time ever, complete access was granted to The Mark Shaw Photographic Archive in order to produce this fresh and expanded take on Shaw''s classic 1964 work, The John F. Kennedys: A Family Album. Not only is this beautiful tome a tribute to the Kennedy Family, but it pays homage to the extraordinary talent of Mark Shaw himself. Shaw first photographed the Kennedys in 1959 for Life magazine. He subsequently developed a close friendship with the family that gave him extraordinary and informal access to their inner circle. He became the Kennedys'' unofficial family photographer and his captivating shots capture some of their most intimate and candid moments. Photographs include Kennedy''s favourite ever shot of himself, walking alone on the dunes at Hyannis Port, plus images on the campaign trail, relaxing at home with friends, entertaining at the White House, and the sombre days immediately following JFK''s assassination.