/ 6 November 2022

‘This is why a forever war kid like me is friends with gangsters’

'daddy, Can I Show The Uncle My Gun'
‘Daddy, can I show the uncle my gun?’ (Joey Isaacs)

Gangs offer Cape Flats youths a way to elevate their status, opportunities for manageable responsibility and to gain access to resources. And they start young

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