CHRIS ROPER: Journalists should know better
Victims of crime may seek to make sense of random acts of violence by mythologising criminals. Journalists should know better
26 November 2020 - 05:00
When I was growing up in the Cape Town suburb of Woodstock, in the days before gentrification, I had a cousin who had become famous for being arrested for stealing the same television twice.
Well, I say famous. He was actually the laughing stock of the criminal world — the thief as lovable buffoon...
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