Lizette Lancaster, researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, says a failure of policing of what South Africans consider "petty crimes", such as house break-ins and robberies, can have dire consequences, as petty crime syndicates look to score easier and bigger paydays.
in england, nursing staff from 51 hospitals, mental health trusts and community services are striking that s about a quarter of trusts or services. but there is no strike action in kent, sussex, surrey, east yorkshire or lincolnshire. and none either in manchester, buckinghamshire, norfolk or suffolk. in wales, nurses from six out of its seven health boards are striking, while all trusts in northern ireland are involved in the action. as we ve heard, no nurses in scotland are taking action today after two unions voted to accept an improved pay offer, but ballots for other union members are continuing. our health correspondent, catherine burns, has been talking to some nurses about why they ve decided to strike. what do we want? a pay rise! how do we get it? strike! it started at 8am, the biggest strike in the history of the royal college of nursing. members across all of northern ireland, most of wales
in wales, nurses from six out of its seven health boards are striking. all trusts in northern ireland are involved in the action. no nurses in scotland are taking action today after two unions voted to accept an improved pay offer but ballots for other union members are continuing. 0ur health correspondent catherine burns has been talking to some nurses about why they ve decided to strike. what do we want? a pay rise! how do we get it? strike! it started at 8am, the biggest strike in the history of the royal college of nursing. members across all of northern ireland, most of wales and about a quarter of trusts in england left their day jobs for picket lines, many with mixed emotions. i feel it is a crying shame. it is really bad, i don t want to do this, my colleagues don t want to do this. today, i am emotional but i have been more emotional on my shifts. i didn t envisage it
this computer thing? to decode what is going on is our culture editor katie russell. i went to the turner prize and did not have more than one glass of wine and i knew that at 8am i would have to be back up in liverpool watching back to back episodes of this. you can t not watch if you are the editor, but 8am is a dodgy time to watch television in my view. you have not had a day off in a while. at 8am you are asleep. must have a little flavour of one of the episodes. you are late. the taxing saying he was in traffic. i was freaking out. i was sweating. i thought, is this what he does? this is i am not doing.