14-YEAR-OLD ELSIES RIVER BOY SHOT DEAD: GANG CULTURE WILL THRIVE UNTIL STRUCTURAL UNDER-DEVELOPMENT IS FIXED

Another day on the Cape Flats, another child shot dead in the street, another promise by officials to deploy extra police for a few days… and then another child is shot dead in the street.

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Teenage Girl Killed In Gang Crossfire: DA And ANC Play Politics While Western Cape Children Suffer

Not only is the violence out of control, but it is spilling out of traditionally gang-ravaged communities. In the last 24 hours two people tragically lost their lives in separate incidents in Belgravia, a relatively middle-class suburb of Athlone – including an entirely innocent Grade 11 girl who was tragically killed in gang crossfire this afternoon.

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