The crimes they are changing: exploring South Africa's evolving criminal landscape

THE CRIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’: EXPLORING SOUTH AFRICA’S EVOLVING

CRIMINAL LANDSCAPE

Caryn Dolley, journalist, author

Monday 19 January  1.00 pm  COURSE FEES R115; Staff and students R58

Organised crime is evolving along with technology. In South Africa and elsewhere, social media is impacting lawbreaking, critical police investigations and court cases. There are already telltale signs of local gangs on TikTok. Disinformation is rife on X. And when it comes to communication, syndicates use secret messaging platforms designed to support their deceit. Traffickers and poachers, meanwhile, have expanded their focus from drugs, guns, humans and mammals, and are now even targeting ants. From abusing online systems to ravaging ecosystems, criminals are adapting.

Recommended reading

Dolley, C. 2019. The Enforcers: Inside Cape Town’s Deadly Nightclub Battles. Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Dolley, C. 2021. To the Wolves: How Traitor Cops Crafted South Africa’s Underworld. Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Dolley, C. 2022. Clash of the Cartels: Unmasking the Global Drug Kingpins Stalking South Africa. Cape Town: Maverick451.

Dolley, C. 2024. Man Alone: Mandela’s Top Cop – Exposing South Africa’s Ceaseless Sabotage. Cape Town: Maverick451.

TO BOOK: https://www.webtickets.co.za/performance.aspx?itemid=1575366075

Caryn Dolley is an award-winning journalist and author based in Cape Town, South Africa. She has covered organised crime in the country for nearly two decades, exposing how South Africa fits into the global criminal landscape, how gangsters appear to have infiltrated aspects of the private sector, and how politics, rogue intelligence, and state corruption is infused in these noxious arenas.

Caryn has reported extensively on how state complicity in crime can produce - and fuel - street-level violence, including murders. She’s also investigated environmental crimes including plant poaching. Her work emphasises how organised crime saturates our everyday lives.

Caryn is the author of four published non-fiction books:

- Man Alone: Mandela’s top cop – exposing South Africa’s ceaseless

sabotage (Maverick 451, 2024)

- Clash of the Cartels: Unmasking the global drug kingpins stalking

South Africa (Maverick 451, 2022)

- To the Wolves: How traitor cops crafted South Africa’s underworld

(Maverick 451, 2021) - debuted at number one on the South

African non-fiction bestseller list.

- The Enforcers: Inside Cape Town’s Deadly Nightclub Battles

(Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2019)

For more: www.caryndolley.com