Crime in Cape Town – Africa is a Country

Gang Town’s focus on Cape Town’s  longue  durée corruption of the social fabric of working class  communities (…) sketches a city that has repeatedly deformed and destroyed social institutions that would otherwise channel the natural rebellions of young people away from gangs, drug  abuse  and violence. In a particularly insightful passage Pinnocks describes how forced removals under the Group Areas Act ripped up “networks of streets, houses, corner shops and shebeens, but also social webs of kin, friendship

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