All posts by Nicky Falkof
Plasma gangs: how South Africans’ fears about crime created an urban legend
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Around the middle of 2013 a series of stories appeared in the South African press about a new phenomenon called ‘plasma gangs’, presented as the latest iteration of the country’s crime crisis. Journalists, broadcasters, police and government spokespeople,…