Breaking the Bombers

''Mark Shaw is the foremost analyst of organised crime in SA.'' – Jonny SteinbergAt the dawn of the country''s 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 ...