TRAILER: Underworlds with Mark Shaw - Underworlds with Mark Shaw
Welcome to Underworlds with Mark Shaw.Organized Crime is everywhere, hidden in plain sight. The stories from this world have been mythologised by Hollywood. But the reality can be even stranger and more exciting than fiction. From the golden age of the American mafia (La Cosa Nostra), to the modern-day cocaine empires, and from the shadowy links between organized crime and terrorism, to the twilight of the Yakuza.In this series Mark Shaw, the Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime delves into non-fiction books about organized crime and the illicit economy with the authors themselves. He asks questions about their background and investigations, but also the challenges associated in writing about this murky world.
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Organized Crime Risk in South Africa
Organized crime in South Africa threatens the economy, its people and the democratic institutions themselves. Every day we see a number of different and seemingly unconnected criminal incidents taking place - from assassinations to gang rapes in an illegal mining community; and from the violence of the taxi industry to organized cooper theft. But what lies behind all of these actions is a dark web, a criminal ecosystem driven by an increasingly violent South African underworld.In this episode Steph Musho talks to Julian Rademeyer, the Director of the East and Southern African Observatory at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime about a new and substantial report called 'Assessing South Africa's organized crime risk'.
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The Gangs of Grassy Park
The Cape Flats in South Africa is made up of 20 suburbs make up the Cape Flats; populated predominantly by black and coloured communities, a term used to describe those of mixed-heritage. Each suburb is marked by poverty, crime, drug abuse, gangsterism and violence. In this, Lindy Mtongana's final episode, she looks at the Grassy Park where a slew of recent killings has exposed the devastating consequences of territorial battles among the Cape’s most dangerous gangs.Presenter: Lindy MtonganaGuests:Julia Stanyard, Senior Analyst, Observatory for East and Southern Africa, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.Lyndsay Connelly, a community organiser in Grassy Park.Additional Links:Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa - Risk Bulletin - Issue 25The Global Organized Crime Index - South AfricaGlobal Assassination MonitorGlobal Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
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Political Assassinations in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
In this episode Lindy delves into the murky world of political assassinations in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Where, according to the GI-TOC's assassination monitor data, for three of the last six years, political assassinations were higher than all other South African provinces combined.Presenter: Lindy MtonganaSpeaker(s): Greg Arde, Journalist and Author of War Party: How the ANC’s political killings are breaking South AfricaChwayita Thobela, Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized CrimeThapelo Mohale, a shack dweller, and the secretary general of Abahlali baseMjondolo.Additional Reading:Eastern and Southern Africa Observatory - Risk BulletinThe rule of the gun: Hits and assassinations in South Africa, 2000-2017Give Us More Guns: How South Africa’s gangs were armedGun licenses for sale: South Africa's failing firearms controlMurder by Contract: Targeted killings in eastern and southern AfricaThe Global Organized Crime Index - South Africa ProfileGlobal Assassination MonitorGlobal Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
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Cattle Rustling in Mali
In this episode Lindy explores the world of cattle rustling in Mali, an act that has existed for centuries. But cattle rustling has evolved into a highly organized form of criminality involving Islamists and bandits, forcing farmers to arm themselves to protect themselves and their herds. Presenter: Lindy MtonganaSpeaker: Deo Gumba, Civil Society Coordinator for the West Africa Observatory, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized CrimeAdditional Reading:West Africa and the Sahel Observatory - Risk BulletinWest Africa and the Sahel ObservatoryGlobal Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Africa and the Global Illicit Economy brings you stories and investigations based on the extensive research networks at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
We'll be looking at corruption, illicit financial flows, gangs, the role of foreign corporations, the political economy of crime, and the enabling environment that has made Africa vulnerable to the growth of organized crime.
Drawing on the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime's civil society observatories for North, South, East and West Africa to get a feel for how organized crime is impacting some of the world and the continent’s emergency trends and contemporary events.
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