STRATEGIC ORGANIZED CRIME RISK ASSESSMENT SOUTH AFRICA - STRATEGIC ORGANIZED CRIME RISK ASSESSMENT SOUTH AFRICA

While many illicit mar- have formed a predatory and parasitic relationship with kets in South Africa are highly violent, the markets in this the fabric of the South African state and the mechanisms category are characterized by the use of the violence as the of everyday life. [...] Indeed, the size of South Africa’s economy may contribute to its high levels of organized crime; the Related to the high degree of connectedness is the high level GI-TOC’s Global Organized Crime Index found that of the of diversity one can see in South African organized crime. [...] generally; the rise of the internet (which has facilitated the expansion of several markets and created a new one in the shape of cybercrime); and the creation of the international While there were connections between South African financial system, which has facilitated money laundering organized crime actors and transnational crime during and other forms of economic and financial crime. [...] PART 1: KNOwING THE RISK ̵ MAPPING THE CONTExT 25 COUNTERING ORGANIZED CRIME: THE STATE’S RESPONSE The trajectory that organized crime has taken in and debilitation; and the Ramaphosa era, characterized by South Africa, discussed in the previous section, is the reprioritization of organized crime but lack of capacity also a reflection of how the state’s response has been to fight it. [...] WHAT THE MURDER RATE TELLS US ABOUT ORGANIZED CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA As illustrated in Figure 5, the decade and a half after the first significant reversal of the gains made in the first 15 years of the democratic elections in 1994 saw a dramatic reduction in South new democracy.