The Tie That Binds: Police Brutality, Lesotho’s Famo Music Gangs, and Illegal Mining in South Africa

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The Tie That Binds: Police Brutality, Lesotho’s Famo Music Gangs, and Illegal Mining in South Africa

The small landlocked Kingdom of Lesotho has in recent years struggled with a resurgence of violence linked to ‘music gangs’ and illegal miners as well as violence enacted upon the rural population by an ever-paranoid security sector. Guns and Paranoia in Lesotho: Bordering South Africa’s Kwazulu-Natal Province to the east and the Province of the Free State to the North, Lesotho’s porous borders allow for the relatively free-flow of peoples betw…