The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs by Jonny Steinberg

The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs

Jonny Steinberg

440 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Behind him lay a lifelong career in the 28s, South Africa's oldest and most reviled prison gang, for decades rumoured to have specialise...

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