Meet former Cape Flats gangsters who are turning their lives, communities around
Photographer and NGO volunteer Pete Barlow ventured into the part of Cape Town that the city likes to keep at arm’s length, where he befriended remarkable men trying to hold back the tide of gangsterism
05 December 2021 - 00:00
A little over two years ago, I became friends with a security guard who I soon noticed had a prison tattoo — a skull with a dagger through its temple. Though I recognised it as a prison tattoo, I didn’t know much about the notorious Numbers gang at that time. ..
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