June 8, 2026·1 min read
The cost of a taser on a Cape Town counter | UBUNTU - A Cape Town Story
By Jamie Clark & Sam Seeley · No Excuse Films
£10. That’s roughly what a taser costs to buy over the counter in Cape Town. Legal to buy. Legal to carry in public.
The same counter contained knives of every description, stun guns, knuckle dusters, pepper sprays — all openly on display, all of it lawful to walk out with.
After 15 years policing in the UK, where most of what was on display would have led to arrests for possession alone, it’s a sobering thing to stand in front of.
It’s not to say that one country has it right and the other has it wrong.
Both systems are answers to the same underlying question — how are ordinary people expected to keep themselves safe?
It’s one of the questions Sam and I have been sitting with while filming Ubuntu - A Cape Town Story.
A documentary about a city that holds beauty and brutality within the same boundaries, told through the people who actually live it.
Coming very soon.
Join the waitlist here > https://acapetownstory.com/waitlist
