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EDITORIAL | A toxic cocktail of gangs, cops and politics sweeps across the Cape Flats

With new provincial commissioner cam high hopes, but nearly a year on, the situation has merely worsened

04 November 2020 - 20:24 By sunday times daily

The townships of the Cape Flats, notorious for violent crime, have a new, unwanted claim to infamy thanks to the explosion of protection rackets targeting businesses of all kinds...

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