This World Blood and Land

Blood and Land

Report on violent crime in South Africa, a nation which has the world's highest murder rate. The programme focuses on the increasing regularity with which wealthy white farmers are being attacked, considering whether this represents simple random crime or the kind of organised campaign witnessed in Zimbabwe. Captain Manie van Zyl, who runs the Serious Violent Crime Unit in a particularly dangerous province, discusses the difficulty he has in tracking down perpetrators, while local man Mike Ndlovana talks about the reasons why landowners are so resented, revealing how what was once his land has now been fenced off and mined. Shown as part of Africa Lives on the BBC