Lynchings, a symptom of state failure

Friday, April 13, 2007

MAPUTO: In the climactic scene of what has been the most popular play showing in Maputo, the citizens of a crime-ridden suburb, fed up by police indifference, take matters into their own hands. They hang a tyre from the neck of a notorious neighbourhood criminal, pour petrol on his head, and burn him alive. At a sold-out performance last week in the Mozambican capital, the audience roared its approval.

"T3" ended its five-month run at the 'Teatro Gungu' at the weekend, having pulled in some 50,000 theatre-goers. The play owes its success to its ripped-from-the-headlines theme: Public lynchings swept through the outer suburbs of Maputo in 2006 and early this year.

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