Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 1794

Gang War Crisis! Battle of the Union's top gangsters brings mounting terror to thousands. George Naidoo convalesces in hospital after severe beating up from gangsters. The gang war in the Johannesburg underground has undermined law and order and brought insecurity to scores of homes and people, and injury to many others. Revolvers are fired with brazen impunity in broad daylight and the tyre lever and chopper become instruments of terror as the gangs vie with each other for supremacy. Events of the past weeks, with countless assaults and shootings, have stunned the peace loving populace of Johannesburg; as the war progresses they wonder whether they, too, will be safe even in their homes.