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CAPE FLATS

It’s a Khaltsha thing: Khayelitsha’s growing middle class

In a few years the township will ‘disappear’, and Khayelitsha will become a city, believes one local entrepreneur

  • Eunice Masson
6 min read
Gangland: In Elsie’s River near Cape Town, where poverty and gangsterism are rife, young men congregating on street corners using or selling drugs, or ‘skarrelling’ through rubbish for usable items, is a common sight.
CONTRABAND

Cape Town’s desperate female gangster phenomenon

Research finds women and girls act as recruits, drug dealers and armed gangsters in the ‘deeply ingrained’ gang culture in the Western Cape

  • Eunice Masson
7 min read