Hi Brian,
Jackie Dugard did a Cambridge University PhD on informal economy
and violence in post-apartheid South Africa a few years back. It
was specifically about the 'taxi wars' in Johannesburg/Pretoria
and Cape Town, armed conflict between gangs for control of the
minibus passenger transport
From the BBC, June 0st 2006:
Web users to 'patrol' US border
Web users worldwide will be able to watch the Texas border. The US
state of Texas, is to enlist web users in its fight against illegal
immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican
border on the internet. Governor