Goga, KhalilGoredema, Charles2014-09-092014-09-0920142014-081026-0404http://hdl.handle.net/10625/53175This paper examines protection racketeering in Cape Town, primarily in the central business district (CBD) and on the Cape Flats, two areas in which protection racketeering is evident despite their markedly different socio-economic profiles. Rampant corruption at a high level makes it difficult to remove these entrenched networks of criminality. The CBD has seen the entrenchment of criminal networks established at a time of weakened state authority. While significant security initiatives have been undertaken in the city’s CBD since 1999, protection racketeering still flourishes. This suggests that it is more than a mere reflection of deficiencies in state capacity.Text1 digital file (16 p. : ill.)application/pdfenLOCAL GOVERNMENTGOVERNANCEORGANIZED CRIMEVIOLENCESOUTH AFRICA--CAPE TOWNSynthesis Report