Small businesses in the township of Alexander employ private security firms to keep crime under control. The police are not trusted to deal with the problem efficiently. Mapogo, the country's biggest vigilante group relies on robust methods to exercise justice. Armed with a Sjambok whip and hosepipe, they extract confessions from suspects. "It's the only way they will talk!" says one satisfied Mapogo client. But it's a rough kind of justice, open to abuse. One suspect is held for four days, lashed until he bleeds and then chained up outside. Both black and white communities are angry that democracy has not fulfilled its promise. "The crime wave began with Mandela's walk to freedom!" claims one resident. And as the insecurity increases, more and more people are prepared to take the law into their own hands.