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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]
The Heidelberg Tavern massacre occurred in Observatory, Cape Town on 30 December 1993. Three Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) terrorists entered the Heidelberg Tavern and opened fire on the crowd, killing four students and the owner of an adjacent restaurant who went outside to investigate the sounds of gunfire. An unexploded bomb (with ...
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 ...
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.
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.
According to the World Bank, South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world [citation needed]. The difference between the wealthy and the poor in South Africa has been increasing steadily since the end of apartheid in 1994, and this inequality is closely linked to racial divisions in society.