page_title: Palisade
section_title: Modern uses
hierarchical_section_title: Palisade / Modern uses
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of a residential electric palisade fence for perimeter defence in Johannesburg, South Africa.
context_page_description: A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a fence or defensive wall made from iron or wooden stakes, or tree trunks, and used as a defensive structure or enclosure. Palisades can form a stockade.
context_section_description: In South Africa especially, as well as other countries, a common means to prevent crime is for residential houses to be protected by perimeter defences such as brick walls, steel palisade fences, wooden palisade fences and electrified palisade fences (railings).  The City of Johannesburg promotes the use of palisade fencing over opaque, usually brick, walls, as criminals cannot hide as easily behind the fence.  Its manual on safety includes guidance, such as avoiding having vegetation alongside the fence, as this allows criminals to make an unseen breach.
caption: Residential electric palisade fence in Johannesburg, South Africa. The top spikes are electrified while the bottom of the palisade is grounded
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