THE STREET, exposing a world of cops, bribes and drug dealers

323pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2016

Through the lives of a shop owner, a police-officer, a police reservist and a powerful drug dealer couple, Paul McNally chronciles lawlessness on a street in Sophiatown.

"This is an important piece of journalism that gives rare insight into Joburg's rotten underbelly and the criminals, cops and citizens who co-exist there." Anton Harber, former Caxton Professor of Journalism and Editor-in-Chief of South African broadcaster ENCA

Journalist Paul Mcally is Founding Director of The Citizen Justice Network, a media initiative the develops journalism in local languages in under-reported areas. He also produces articles and documentaries for Wits Journalism on criminal justice, health and science. He is a 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.