"Tsepho Mathloko, a well-known 42-year-old painter and Operation Wanya Tsotsi’s deputy chairperson, has remarkably rosy recollections of his childhood in Galeshewe in the 1970s and 1980s, a time when most South African townships were besieged by extreme levels of political violence"

The political violence of the 1970's and 1980's, was indeed extreme in some parts of South Africa. However it was not as indiscriminate and restrictive as the violence perpetuated by criminals, who rape and murder grannies and toddlers, engage in violent home invasions, kill and hijack drivers, rob innocent people going through their daily routines etc. People (especially women and children) have become prisoners in their own communities and homes as their movement is restricted by the fear of becoming random victims of the crime wave.  The state is failing our people - that is the real problem!