NATIVE CONVICT GANGS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14221, 19 February 1914, Page 5

NATIVE CONVICT GANGS.

DANGEROUS ORGANISATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright. Received February 10, 8.15 a.m. LONDON, February 18, The Daily Mail’s Capetown correspondent states that the Justice De partment has issued a statement showing that native convicts have been bind mg tjhemselyes intofe gangs for crimina purposes. The organisations of each gang comprise a king, a judge, a fighting general, a medical officer, and war riors. A trial is held and puishment? decreed, death sentences being inflicted in some eases by stabbing with a sharp ened nail, strangling with a wet towel, or putting powdered glass into tho victim’s food. The organisations, which are. chiefly Zulu, terrorise the native? into membership.