Street Blues author Andrew Brown knows South Africa's system of law and order inside and out. As a reservist policeman, he confronts the order, or lack of it, in our society in real time; and as an advocate, writer and thinker, he is obliged to wrestle with our evolving laws, probing their soft spots, testing their conclusions, as a matter of course. It must be second nature to him. Brown is the perfect person to give a book like Chris Marnewick's Shepherds and Butchers - which evolves around the concept of justice and its intersection with capital punishment - for review. Marnewick's courtroom drama is a novel, but contains the true-life stories of men who were condemned to execution before South Africa did away with the death penalty. Here are Brown's comments, which are not without mild criticism, but which ultimately deliver a solid carrot as verdict: ...
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Street Blues author Andrew Brown knows South Africa's system of law and order inside and out. As a reservist policeman, he confronts the order, or lack of it, in our society in real time; and as an advocate, writer and thinker, he is obliged to wrestle with our evolving laws, probing their soft spots, testing their conclusions, as a matter of course. It must be second nature to him. Brown is the perfect person to give a book like Chris Marnewick's Shepherds and Butchers - which evolves around the concept of justice and its intersection with capital punishment - for review. Marnewick's courtroom drama is a novel, but contains the true-life stories of men who were condemned to execution before South Africa did away with the death penalty. Here are Brown's comments, which are not without mild criticism, but which ultimately deliver a solid carrot as verdict: ...