Kenichi Serino

South Africa’s crime rate is falling, but the Os­car Pis­to­rius mur­der tri­al ex­pos­es a lin­ger­ing fear of ‘black crime’.

Protests against lack of ba­sic ser­vices and gov­ern­ment dys­func­tion have be­come in­creas­ing­ly com­mon in re­cent years.