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The history of gangs in South Africa goes back to the Apartheid era. Many South African gangs began, and still exist, in urban areas. This includes cities like Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Cape Town has between 90 and 130 gangs [1] with the South African Police Service stating a total estimated membership of 100,000. [2]
District Six (Afrikaans: Distrik Ses) is a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1966, the apartheid government (the National Party ) announced that the area would be razed and rebuilt as a "whites only" neighbourhood under the Group Areas Act . [ 1 ]
South Africa has exceptionally high rates of murder, gender-based violence, robbery and violent conflict. [105] A survey for the period 1990–2000 compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ranked South Africa second for assault and murder (by all means) per capita and first for rapes per capita in a data set of 60 countries. [106]
Atlantis is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa and is 40 km (25 mi) north of Cape Town. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As of 2024, it has approximately 90,207 residents. Unemployment, lack of housing and crime are major challenges in the area.
The events now known as the 2021 South African unrest, the Zuma riots, or the July 2021 riots, escalated into the most severe violence South Africa has witnessed since the conclusion of apartheid, and resulted in the arrests of over 5,500 individuals and the deaths of 354.
Lonte was known as the person who introduced crack cocaine into South Africa in the 1980s. During the mid 1990s whilst in prison, Lonte was the first person to raise the flag of a street gang in prison cells, an act forbidden by prison number gang rules.
I thought of these rules when I flew into Cape Town, South Africa’s second-largest city, in March. Over the last three years, Cape Town has been suffering an extraordinary, once-in-300-years drought—helped along, most analysts surmise, by climate change. The shift in the city’s physical appearance is astonishing.
On farm roads across South Africa. 23–25 [19] At least 150 landmines were planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe. The Cradock Four murders: 27 June 1985 town of Cradock, Eastern Cape 4 Abduction and murder of four anti-Apartheid activists by South African security police Duncan Village Massacre: 1985-08-11 Duncan Village, East London, Eastern Cape: 19 ...