[ noun ] the practice of plundering in gangs <noun.act>
"Entry to public facilities must be unconditional and free. What these councils are planning is an illegal act of banditry," said the ANC's secretary in the eastern Transvaal, Joe Nkuna.
The country also is suffering from hyperinflation, which threatens to overcome the economy, widespread banditry and interclan fighting in the interior.
He has taken to sleeping on a navy patrol boat. The riots were not only about banditry.
The persistence of drugs traffickers, guerrillas and widespread banditry is not much help in the government's search for foreign investment.
Some front soldiers also have been arrested by the Thais for banditry.