THE story you are about to read is true – only the names have been changed to… uhm… spare embarrassment to innocent people involved.
During the mid-1990s, the local media were describing crime as “out of control”, South Africans were “arming themselves to the teeth”, armed response security services had become a growth industry, and residents were becoming “prisoners in their own homes”. In short, South Africa was “sick of crime”.
A notorious armed robber, Sam Mac-Tavish (not his real name) of no fixed
