A Decade After the Fall of Apartheid, South Africa is Attempting to Rebuild Itself As a Safe, Just and Democratic Society. but an Exponential Rise in Property Theft Threatens to Derail That Future. in People Who Have Stolen From Me, the Author Looks at His Native Country Through the Microcosm of Jules Street, at Once the Longest Straight Street in Johannesburg and a Rambunctious Thoroughfare on Which Crooked Men Thrive. on Jules Street, the Author Tracks the Tragicomic Fortunes of Two Charismatic Businessmen and Their Colorful Coterie of Employees, Who Include Former Carjackers. the Furniture Store Owned by Harry Sher and Jack Rubin is Caught in the Middle of an Undeclared War They Are Raided, Robbed and Defrauded by Gangs of Criminals, Customers, Even Some of Their Own Trusted Employees.