Georges Ndlovu, the tavern's owner, was injured in the robbery. "Nobody helped," he said of his neighbors. "I don't blame them. I would not have helped."
The New York Times’s Barry Bearak have done a great job reporting on rampant crime in Diepsloot Johannesburg. He points out how policing is being privatised. The poor organise themselves into vigilante groups. A frightening outcome to a frightening situation.
Even Jacob Zuma, the new president, says that citizens cannot be “blamed if they take the law into their own hands.”
In one way or another, most already do. Among the wealthy, private security is the substitute for police protection. The open veldt surrounding Johannesburg is filling in with one barricaded development after another, fortified with electrified fencing, cameras and armed patrols.
Depressing but excellent journalism.
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