'The main problem is poverty': residents and experts on defeating crime in Khayelitsha

Cele says plans for new police station in the area will be fast-tracked, and task team will be revived to monitor crime-fighting

19 July 2022 - 10:37 By Bobby Jordan, SIPOKAZI FOKAZI and Tanya Farber

The promises invoked the future but the songs and sound bites bursting out of Khayelitsha reached deep into the past on Mandela Day...

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