How Cape Town became a murder capital
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When you phone south africans police they either come 2 hours later,or the next day,or they don't even show up
they show up pretty quickly in the CBD
@@user-lg7mp5sf9d Yo where u from
@@youngerpy3165 lived in Vredehoek and Tamboerskloof
When my motorbike was stolen i called them and after 2 hours they called to ask where i was just to find out they went to the wrong place then they hung up saying theyll come soon then never came
They showed up quickly when a 14y old white girl got mugged.
Crazy how the airport is 5 min away from the most murderous township in SAfrica (Nyanga). 20 km away its paradise on the beach.
Check on Johannesburg and watch the distance from Alexandra to Sandton City or Bryanston or Durban if you so prefer.
@@milagiganticurchod6138 No we all talk about how dangerous Johannesburg and Durban is but you Cape Tonians live in a state of denial.
I had a white friend who just found it inconvenient for international people to see this part of Cape Town first, we’re no longer friends
@@giagia4631 My problem is Johannesburgers don't get defensive when people talk about the bad. You mention Alexandra they don't see it as denigration. When we talk about Khayalitsha however then Cape Tonians will dislike you forever. Johannesburg and Cape Town may be different but they actually face similar problems. Both Johannesburg and Cape Town are not safe places. Both Johannesburg and Cape Town have traffic problems. Both Johannesburg and Cape Town have high inequality. So why do Cape Tonians have to hate on Johannesburg for the problems they face but Cape Town faces the same problems
@@subwaysurfer5378 Cape Tonians are such hypocrites then. Their city is currently the 8th most violent city in the world.
Cape Town the Rio De Janeiro of Africa…iconic beaches, great weather, beautiful people, extreme inequality, and unfathomable violence!
If you create a system of despair that deprives people of resources, jobs and other economic opportunities, what do you expect will happen?
Well said and so true. Where's that JP guy?
Couldn't agree with you more.
Joshua Michau ignorant, just ignorant
@@joshuamichau5122 no bruh, colored and Indians had it worse than any other skin colour in this country. I'm white and to see my colored friends being the last to be picked as history seems to repeat itself is the most frustrating...the Cape flats was atleast created by the whites. I don't see what the ANC government has done to help over the last two decades... Other than trying to turn around the constitution so they can take without paying (it's like they're forgetting this is a socialistic democracy)
The system ended over a quarter of a century ago.
It took the Jews less than 20 years to create an economic powerhouse in the Middle East after the devastation of the worst human tragedy in recent history.
Let's not even mention the East Asian nations post-WW2, or Rwanda after the genocide. Eventually, people have to move on and start creating their own future.
Yes inequality in the past was disgusting, but stop blaming apartheid already.. The only reason why there's been little progress in townships is due to ANC's rampant looting and self-destruction.
I live in Cape Town, Mitchells plain. This video is a reality in the Cape Flats. It’s really bad, gang related murders are a norm.
its like 2 different countries mitchells plain and areas like claremont, bishop court etc
I'm thinking of studying in Cape Town, will I be safe???
please tell me the safest neighbourhoods in cape town
@@ahmedj.5311 yes you will in areas like Rondebosh, New lands,Claremont, Rosebank, those are areas for students in which i also stay, really safe and alot supermarkets around, great nature atmosphere, old school bars and clubs
blaze kabera awesome, I don’t wanna be demotivated by these crimes😂😂
@@ahmedj.5311 Where you coming from?
I live in Cape town. The southern railway line is basically the sharp dividing line between two worlds.
Ashton Gardner it’s the whites fault need to distribute the wealth or be ran back to Europe.
@@lance8080 Blaming others is never a real solution for any problem.
William Wallace it is in the case of South Africa and that’s a fact.
@@lance8080 The gene pool in Cape Town has been mixed among Coloureds over a period of 400 years. Now what is also a fact and some will furiously disagree, is that the White gene pool, Afrikaaners in particular, is also not 100% European anymore. So by now they are not European anymore just have more White genes compared to Coloureds who have less White genes. Then who do we send back to Europe, Coloureds and Whites?
Mimeniia that’s easy you grab up all the whitest looking one’s either threaten them with capital punishment or leave the country. Capital punishment will motivate them to leave without much fuss.
When people have so little they feel they have nothing else to lose.
yes, all too true
The Archive that shouldn’t excuse them for their violence
@@4chukwuebuka No it shouldn't. But if you look at history, being Jewish or being Black should not entice other people being violent to you either.
John O It’s easy to say if you live a safe and comfortable life. These people are not as fortunate. In the jungle, you’re either predator or prey.
Edem A. I have been poor my whole life and my parent went from being rich to poor and we never got violent. Stop this victim hood nonsense.
Sadly this is a very small part of reality. If you are not from, CPT you probably will not know.
Cosmic Surfer I love your intellectual fallacy you just used there. If you aren’t from there, you simply can’t know. No. Bad argument on your part and fallacious. Appeal to authority argument
@@MynameJeffX I take it you know tha Cape Flats gang world well then.
How many years of experience do you have on the subject?
Being part of the cape flats myself, i know that this is a very big deal in our community....you dont have to live here to hear the increasing stories regarding our gangs....kids can no longer play in the road, going to the local house-shop around the corner seems like a mission.....the lockdown has brought it down quite drastically but its the same effect as when the army came in for the afternoon, left early evening and 10 people were killed earlier this year
@@byronblanckenberg2666 Is maar moeilik vir buite landers om dit te verstaan bra. Hulle moet eers kom nautch om wys te raak. 👊
cpt is nie n jok nie die mense van America en dat sien niks van vat klap in die cape flats
When you see police officers taking home a salary of R7000 you will understand why they couldn't care less.
Facts, in Europe police officers are paid extremely well relative other jobs..
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Nobody forced any of the police officers to join the police and they knew what the salary was when they joined, secondly, a lot of the officers in SA cannot read or write so they would find it hard to earn a proper salary elsewhere.
That said, there are those officers who really take their jobs seriously and do an excellent job and who deserve a better salary.
It's hypocritical_ how can you take a job that's meant to protect people, the very same people that pay your salary in form of taxes, yet play a part in destroying them_ allowing innocent lives to be taken just because you're hungry. Domestic workers and cleaners earn less but manage to live well.
Honestly, it's disgusting. It's selfish_
If that's a problem for the police, then they shouldn't have applied for the job to begin with.
Nobody forced to take the job tho...and I thought it was about "protecting" the people but now I see it's all about protecting people's pockets
The real gangsters are in suits and ties, with great political influence.
True..the so called honorables in parliament.
Very well said
It reminds you of a proper Ponzi Scheme. Only the guys at the top makes the real boodle, and they didn't even have to build their own H.Q.
Agree with this... It's so sad... When will this end... Proud Capetonian
The REAL Gangsters have locked down the whole planet because of a "deadly" disease that everybody who doesn't know anybody who has it
Peru had similar issues in the 80's and 90's. They had a president that came in with a zero tolerance approach and ended the decades of violence in a few short years, his methods are still questioned by educated elite in foreign countries but not by those that were burdened with living through daily violence.
Fujimoro?
@@christharp3862 yep
Notice how the leader of the violence Guzman, who was caught and imprisoned, was a wealthy educated j/w living in a wealthy neighbourhood, Just like the people behind all this organised crime and exploitation in South Africa, even the cop selling 1000s of guns illegally, are also j/ wish.. there's a lesson there for South africans.
You're wrong, Fujimori's daughter lost hardest in the areas most affected by violence. Primarily because the Fujimoris are corrupt power abusing oligarchs that hate the poor and exploit them for the rich.
Fujimori literally commited genocide against the indigenous people.
@@powerbite92 Seems like Castillo is working out great for everyone.
I never knew Cape Town was Rio's twin brother
My friend lives there ._.
very much so
Cape Town needs to follow the example of Medellin in Colombia 🇨🇴. That city was the most violent city in the world in the 80s and 90s......and today the city is totally transformed. Cape Town should really look at how it can emulate some of what Medellin did....
I will look into that...
Yeah now Tijuana Mexico is the most violent city in the world but in the 80s and 90s it was the most beautiful and safest city on the planet but now they had 800+ murders through the week
@@charmainej4820 can't
How did they go about it?
@@TrapAntz the crime situation in Colombia is still quite bad, the homocide rate is not far behind South Africa and Mexico
As a coloured female living in the cape flats I'm scared to even step foot outside
Lol u are ridiculous
Why dont you move to another safe place?
@@digit313 not easily done.
@@digit313 to move to a safer places means pay more towards rent and where must said money come from if there are no jobs and if you do get a job you get paid peanuts yet you're well qualified and experienced, and to top it off rising food prices and fuel adds on to this so no its not just a matter of moving to a safer space if that is really all you can afford than thats all you have left to hold onto.
Cape Town is very similar as many cities in Brazil, like Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Fortaleza and Manaus unfortunately 😔😔😔😔😔.
All beautiful but unfortunately crime is high but same for USA city's aswell
@jorg nebel poverty, social unequally and corrupt politicians.
yes, i've spent time in all those cities and salvador...brasil is a wonderful country, but when people are hungry and broken, they will do desperate things
@Mo`a 'Anbessa Ze'imnegede Yihuda That's the case for all places around the world. Crime came from the poorest and neglected areas of all countries even rich countries.
claro mano, e estou em Cape town, mas aqui nao tem 2 homens na moto matando 24h
Poor management of the country. Same as Zimbabwe. These nations drive out the highly skilled workforce and wonder why they collapse.
@@lobbyskids2 we will rise again.. We will have Minus one problem (racists)
As someone who lives in Cape Town, it’s crazy to see how stark the contrast is between the two ways in which the City can be portrayed. This side is very much a reality and take nothing away from this truth, but one could easily create another video that shows Cape Town as a paradise, obviously given you have the resources to make it that for yourself.
Do you mean a most glorius graveyard for the unfortunate few?
That's the problem. The media says Cape Town is dangerous but it only showcases the Wealthy side. It can be confusing
Cape Town is a paradise. Wake up and stop blaming all on apartheid. Best from Namibia.
The contrast is pretty big here in new York also but it's not even that big compared to cape town
Considerations from Brazil:
Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo are two cities in very similar conditions. It's an unfortunate and delicate situation that we inherited from past corrupt and prejudice driven governments. The traditional short term solutions like militarizing the police, declaring war on drugs and allowing people to carry weapons for personal protection might get some drug dealers arrested, dismantle one or two gangs and create some headlines reporting that civilians successfully reacted to assaults. However, it seems to me that by doing it, politicians are just interested on stating that they didn't neglect these problems.
The government doesn't dare making significant investments on developing these poor regions because it eventually generates a conflict of interests with very powerful gangs and corrupt police groups that benefit from the poverty. The more appropriate way of dealing with the problem (e.g. investing in a more efficient educational system) also doesn't reach the media in such an impactful way and its long-term characteristic does not fit into the time span of one or two mandates, making it threfore unattractive when it comes to the polls.
It takes a lot of courage and hard work to break this cycle and very few are willing to take the risk.
Guilherme Chinen we need to start with real root cause analysis but suspect substance abuse is a major driver? G are you aware of any such study or social grouping looking to do so? G
Yeah I’ve realized that South Africa is extremely similar to Brazil but at least now we don’t have a bolsonaro, but maybe that’ll happen soon
Treat the cause rather than the symptoms.
The problem could be solved in a year but as you said, corrupt government and police benefit from the chaos so the government refuses to invest in these communities.
@kevin p I sense I know where you want to go with that sentence. I'm assuming you're white. Please, correct me if I'm mistaken. You forgot to mention that the retired police officer who illegaly sold weapons is white. The illegal drugs that fuel most violent crime are purchased by whites. Additionaly, have a look at South Africa, Brazil and the States and you can easily find a common denominator: blacks have been scarred by a system that brought an unfair disadvantage. It takes time to heal, so don't reopen the wound. Put a white or any person under what blacks go through and you're going to see the same results. You should be glad you still have a scapegoat. Soon the curtain will fall and the truth will be revealed. You might feel safe because of the colour of your skin but it won't last. The sensible ones keep quiet and or find ways to better our world. Perhaps what you expected was somebody to agree or disagree with your statement without offering any reasonable argument. What about conducting a scientific study of your findings and sharing it with us? Half-baked statements and arguments don't solve problems.
im so happy my family and i are leaving the cape flats (valhalla park) and moving to new zealand after the coronavirus pandemic
I wish you luck 😭😊 Wish I could leave
Can we have an update? Have you moved?
@@tondiramabulana6306 New Zealand borders are still closed to international travel ,, so probably next year once the vaccine is out, corz it seems only then new Zealand will allow people into their country
@@universeunlocked3382 that makes sense. I wish you all the best though :)
Best of luck and glad you and your family are going to a better place!
"you don't need to be a gangster, drug dealer or drug addict, you can travel the world" That almost made me cry
The only solution to this is to create employment with a decent salary and punish corrupt officials
Jenn Mokgadi 💯
@Luxavia Olivier
😂😂😂😂😂🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 I don't understand or probably never will why Europeans always think we are over breeding as frogy always says it's non of my business. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love my people 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
With what funding? And what company would hire them?
Most of these people are only qualified to be construction workers and domestic workers, if they are willing to work at all.
What they need are large scale foreign investments in the manufacturing industry and a massive skills development programme.
Get rid of ANC and things might start looking up. Look what Rwanda was able to achieve in the years following the horrific genocide.. all because of solid leadership.
@@ptchangsa you are wrong most people are educated they just lack opportunities, majority of South Africans have completed grade12 and others either college or university education. We just need to support South African businesses at all times and that way it will encourage people to start businesses.
@@jennmokgadi3438 so, ask yourself why it's not happening.
I remember the time when the South African Navy had their armory robbed.
But then again this is the same navy that keeps getting their subs stuck, shoots their own ships by accident...and on at least one occasion accidentally shot at a diving boat with coastal defenses during practice.
Will Drogan SADF > SANDF
1982 18 feb. President Kruger.
Will Drogan they weren’t robbed someone took a bribe and sold the stuff
They are constructing electric fencing around the armoury now
lol What a cartoon Navy. Even the Police looks like Joke.
I grew up in Hanover Park, Cape Town. Gov really doesn't care, nor do the people living here. Failure to change from both sides, with massive inequality.
Edwin How did you leave? Were you able to complete formal education? Was it possible to avoid getting in crime yourself? Sorry for bombarding you with questions, but living at the other end of the world I am very curious.
@@dennistschopp3768 - I grafted hard at school and even harder at university, while working at the same time. If it wasn't for my parents and especially my father, I don't know how else I would've made it. After university, still needed to graft hard to show I'm able to punch above my weight - not for others sake, but my own. My dad raised me by showing me the benefits of hard work and I've never felt anyone owes me anything - I want to make it for myself.
Gov don't care. People don't care. Sounds pretty equal.
Edwin keep strong. This situation is so depressing.
it was created on purpose..
I know Cape Town from the 80ies and it was the most beautiful and safe city in the World. Followed by Windhoek.
Yeah but it was run by different people.
You think Apartheid being abolished has anything to do with the downfall of Cape Town, or for that matter, South Africa? Just asking....
@@sandhopper599 yes
@@benvado4586 Its still being run by white people.
@@sandhopper599 F. racist!
This problem, no matter where in the world it is, will never end. The only ones who can put a stop to it is the communities in which this is taking place, however, those very same communities are split. You have one group fighting for the violence to end and then you have the other group who are protecting these very same gangster elements because of the financial benefits that they derive from it. Unless the group fighting against it becomes stronger, the cycle will continue indefinitly.
"... distribution of murders." Wow, I didn't even know this term was exist.
This is sad and hilarious
Poverty never makes a person commit a violent crime. Lack of morality and lack of fathers at home does.
I feel like it's a combination of both at least in some cases.
Poverty, just create opportunities for Gangs to exploit
Agreed
Poverty is a contributing causing factor to people committing crime.
I guess poverty on makes certain groups commit crime...
Looks like Chicago, Baltimore, Oakland, St Louis, and Detroit all at the same time.
I am not American. But to me it sounds like a South African Los Angeles
I'm not even racist I love white people but sometimes people like you really test my patience.
MadebyYourstruly What? I was making a joke. And St Louis isn’t too far behind in terns of crime.
In Africa 😂
@Paul nmn Yup.
Being from the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, I panic driving on the N2 having to pass places like Nyanga, Heideveld, Bonteheuwel, Langa etc.
I can relate
Panic? Jesus someone is a victim
The loves of my life is stuck in Mitchell's Plain. Alison and her daughter Amber. I am here in N. CA, with a bad back. If it wasn't for her I know I wouldn't be here typing now. She makes very little and has offered once to try to help me. Then when everything cost twice as much except labor. It is so hard to survive in Cape Town area. Then being used by a guy and got stuck as a single mother now. I try to help her when I can but I am stuck on disability my self. We love to just to at least meet one day but we have come to the realization not even that will happen and now I just hope she meets someone that will make her happy there since I can't.
Such a great coverage and very interesting job.
I would like to point on the non existence of covering the business that were running their and if they were local companies or supported from Westren countries.
Thanks alot
Really liked this video and the only truly educational video I found on CZcams so I really appreciate your work
Narrator : How did CT reach crisis point?
Answer : Nobody in power gives a flying......
How long till SA is on par with Zimbabwe? Wealth equality.
In life you have to make your own luck. 1) Stop waiting for politicians to change your life 2) Do not have kids unless your partner puts a ring on it, is not a loser or until you've found a lucrative job profession.
@@soulsurfer639 or stop breeding if you can't maintain it
@@soulsurfer639 Always easy to say that...
@@soulsurfer639 Unemployed people having children is also a problem
These people speak as if gangsterism in Capetown or south africa in general only start during democratic era. When some of these gangs are over 100 years old and started during colonial era
We don't know how their power evolved, they might have existed for over a century but we don't know how much power they had before and after democracy started.
@@phank.s.4052 They know.
True. But Apartheid cracked down on violent gangs alongside civilian suppression. Especially in Gauteng, in townships that were close to white areas especially.
And Cape Town hardly had black gangs because it hardly had any Black Africans prior to 1994. It had Coloured gangs however ,but even then, violence was not as extreme as it is today.
@Bolaji Windapo ANC didn't help coloureds since apartheid ended why you still defending those corrupt people
@Bolaji Windapo Everyone in politics that has power is corrupt and why even bother voting and even when you dont vote the vote goes to ANC thats why they will always win
Brilliant reporting! International media tends to play around stereotypes and to be honest I was expecting that. Fortunately, you proved me wrong. I'm from Cape Town and everything said here didn't misrepresent the crisis we're embroiled in. Straight facts!
I feel pain seeing my home like this. ANC needs to go, ASAP!
Anc is not in charge of cape town!!
@@kcchristop Cape Town is not a city-state...
The government should have developed the Eastern Cape. It's a great place to live and work, but it lacks infrastructure and thus opportunities, so the EC people have flooded into the Western Cape. Combined with our african national (illegal/undocumented) immigrantion burden - unemployment, poverty and social decay (riots, crime, addiction, domestic violence) has ripped through our City. There are just too many people fighting for space in one area. We are oversaturated, and we don't get the fair share of the taxes to support the load of people, people who expect the City to provide for them
A Brink way more people move to JHB than cpt . You can’t blame immigration. Coloured communities have always been gang ridden .
I unfortunately disagree with that narrative Sir. The violence in the Cape Flates isn't about sharing of space, drug territory yes and the people born in the EC and Afro immigrants have very little a role to play in what in happening. I suggest you focus your energies more o finding solutions than blame
novel idea. I think that was the plan until the new government (1994) realised that the wonderful Apartheid regime had left a bankrupt state. Setting back any ambitious plans for development by decades. It certainly didn't help that the ANC then went and self-sabotaged by forcing Zuma down our throats.
A Brink so that’s why your people are killing foreigners?
Clearly you dont live in CAPE TOWN.
im from apartheid and worked in communities,gangs started even before apartheid but was worsened after 1994 because we were oppressed again by the system with less job opportunities,poorer housing,neglegted due to corruption in high places ,higher food prizes,prizes to buy houses rised more after 1994 to prevent our people from buying affordable houses,ppl lost land before and lost again,foreign nationals also being allowed to sell drugs.
Karachi was just like this until a few years ago and then the government started an operation by the paramilitary against gangs and organized crime. Now it's peaceful.
Stirner?
@@frederickvonabel6349 yep
In Chennai, the government gave a shoot on sight right to policemen to solve this issue in the 90's. Now there are no more gangs in the city. The problem is the legal system prevents cops from getting the criminals, even if they go to jail they will come out or have someone else take the blame for the big guys. So, that kind of extreme step empowers cops to clean up fast.
spent more than ten years of my life i cape town and that was a learning experience
If only we knew the source of this cANCer
Its actually APARTHEID. If APARTHEID hasnt failed to allow for proper education of all then we wouldn't be having problems with government today... APARTHEID also caused this gangland. If it wasnt for APARTHEID robbing from my peoples right to a proper education which could of lead to a well paying job instead of the lowing paying ones we were forced to take.
APARTHEID moved us into ghettos because apparently we were not fit to own desirable land and live in "white areas" (GROUP AREAS ACT). Gangsterism is a result of people wanting to get out of the ghettos white people put us in, but However some of our parents cant afford schooling due to low paying jobs and in some cases addicted to drugs which makes joining a gang and selling drugs seem like the easy way out of the ghetto
@@jesse_nIs the rest of Africa's problems also Apartheids' fault?😆 Keep on kicking that dead horse, you might get it to do a trick for you.
@@alwynnel753 The rest of Africa is a result of the attempt of colonization my friend. You think its ANC too😂
Isn’t western cape runned by the DA?
@@jesse_n you're an idiot. The ANC has been in power LONG ENOUGH to come up with solutions or make such changes to these problems. Why haven't they? Or wait that's right... corruption. This is on the ANC now.
Yes, what happened in the last 26 years? It seems like since 1994 it just got exponentially worse...
I totaly disagree that aparthied is the source of these gang violences in Capetown either capetown @large,my question wld be was there gang stars during the aparthied error ?? If the answer is no then the ANC is to blame for being leckless in insuring safty and security,The ANC regalised the selling of guns to citizenz surpose there was an error in the brain or they new exactly what they want to achieve as time goes by,and if the answer is yes what did the ANC do to disarm those keeping dangerous weapons nothing,"amistake made by a hero has severe consiquences to bear" we call people heroes of what i dont knw
There were gangsters, drugs, rapes and killings during the apartheid era too. You wouldnt know that coz you living in your little bubble of privilage.
@@rabianolan1838 but during apartheid the crime rate was only high because of anti apartheid protesters, and the crime rate today is even worst than APARTHEID
Are you racist?
I love this city . I hope everything will turn out well.
Put lie detectors in all South African government offices and police stations and watch crime and corruption disappear. Zuma's revenge of a trashed economy needs a solution. Making the economy healthy is easy. Once the jobs appear - the crime stops. The better paying jobs will go to the better educated. Lie detectors! 12 letters to economic excellence........
Whenever you have many young people living together and have no opportunities and no hope, violence, drugs and crime will always be the outcome
Excellent clip and it really showed the situation. (My head is better with the economist in it.) I do recommend a subscription.
I heard that
During the Ice age
groups of people who survived here from the rest of the world. They are the grand parents of the world
Wow i lieve in SA but i didn't know things are like this in Cape town I'm a little frightened now cos on these December holidays i am going to vacate there
I stayed in Woodstock in Cape Town for 4 years also sometime i use to go visit my South African friends in Hanover Park and Manenburg
In Kenya a gangster would be very very very lucky to have their day in court. Ruthless as it may sound this has greatly deterred the youth from engaging in crime as it will only mean death.
We have people that’s made dependent on the state, we have seen how useless the state has been. It won’t get better, we as private citizens need to create our own opportunities.
Hard to believe that you're living in the same city. Very sad.
Pov you from Cape Town and you realize you’ve been living in a bubble , I haven’t seen gang violence where I live
Education is the only way to get them out from crimes.
They'd rather have multiple babies
I totally agree with the comment from A.Brink about the Eastern Cape. This area should be developed because there is an over influx of people from here and this is shrinking the resources for the locals in Cape Town in low income communities. Many of these people from Eastern Cape would prefer to stay in their own towns but are forced by economics to move. Government should stop corruption, don't put these corrupt individuals in jail force them to pay back the money they stole and then they must build up these communities. If you just send people to jail for their
misdeeds they are getting off easy. They must pay back in hard cash.
I totally agree, Cape Town's poverty will never be solved unless the Western Cape works with the Eastern Cape to create sustainable and empowering systems by dismantling the old systems
My home city . Grew up in Mitchell's plain . Such a beautiful city. I traveled all over the world but nothing beats cape towns beauty . It's a shame it's a gang infested city
Mitchell's plain is alos gang area , just watched a documentary. The guy with BMW is your Gang leader?
Love the travel vlogs in Cape Town!
It’s always someone else’s fault
Do you know the history of South Africa? Bit of a Low IQ comment there, brush up on your history
Poverty & economic imbalance is root cause of criminals
RACE
@@jakedefa5095 I hope that was a meme
No, its IQ
This metric can explain all populations across the globe.
@@shawnbarker6463 thank you!!!
First of all, That's amazing technology to be able to detect gunfire in real time. 👌
The game is about recruiting young, I had a couple number gang members as classmates, and that was when I was still in primary school
I honestly don't know what can be done to uplift communities like nyanga. Best you can do is work hard enough to get out of it. The situation is not getting better and now that we have Covid-19 which will further increase the unemployment rate.. Things are going to get worse
I dated a muslim girl from Hanover Park 1994 - 1996. It was dangerous but, I miss Capetown.
That's a very dangerous place right there
How is you dating a Muslim girl relevant to this story?
@@angienew8499 The most dangerous areas of Capetown was the Cape flats where the Coloured Muslims & Coloured Christians lived. Most of your Muslims in South Africa are "Coloured" Mix Race ( Southeast Asian, Arab, India, European & African) living in the Cape Flats of Capetown. The Women are the most Beautiful in the World. Capetown back in the Mid 1990's was 70% Cape Coloureds, 20% Europeans and 10% African. It's probably 50% Cape Coloured, 40% African & 10% European in May 2020. I now live in Southeast Asia.
@@BlackAmericanHomeland Angie is gona ask you how all that is relevant as well😅. Thanks for the info Brother.
@@BlackAmericanHomeland Wow, kudos, you did your homework. 😉
Is this Detroit or Baltimore?
I thought it was either Chicago or St Louis
Much worse. But tourism makes it to easy to forget it
You know what it is why you asking dumb questions 😭
Much worse. Actually those cities are decent compared to other cities around the world like CT, Rio, Mexico City, etc. people in Detroit still live in decent housing and not shacks with no running water.
Lol, you can't even compare 😂
An optimistic future is those individuals need. If theres no hope and jobs within the community, violence will surge. This is just purely the responsibility of the government to create jobs.
The surprise is it's impossible for government to create jobs, unless you mean they get more do-nothing posts in government.
@@Waldemarvonanhalt that's boils down to govnment policy to make domestic businesses thrive
Government cannot create jobs. The entrepreneurs create jobs. Government taxes the entrepreneurs and uses money themselves. Governments do not make money they only spend it.
@@tanyouliang read up on our BEEE and the corruption with tenders. If you are white you are a second class citizen
Guys the DA runs the City of Cape Town. They should ensure that the people there are well taken care off. It’s amazing how when it comes to crime the blame and responsibility lies with the Ruling party but anything beautiful it’s the DA. They must accept responsibility for everything there in Cape Town.
Lol blame the DA. The DA is the last hope for the whole country. The ANC never delivers and a lot of smart blacks can't be bought in the western cape. There's only so much a provincial party can do but cape Town needs federal level attention and all parties to the solution.
What makes it unique is how it’s barley ever seen
In Kenya, criminals are not spared and it's effective.
Killing is not the best way to solve the problem but it brings peace.
2:43 true.. incidents happen.. and life goes on as normal.. this is our normal
Put lie detectors in all of South Africa's government offices and police stations and watch things immediately improve. Once tourists and foreign investors are assured of honest South African civil servants, the economy will skyrocket, crime will then be a lot less attractive to the young and the value of the rand will rise accordingly. Lie detectors would cost South Africa one million rand. Replacing South Africa's economic credibility after Zuma's nightmare, would please the family of the late President Mandela. 12 letters L I E D E T E C T O R S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love studying about places like this.
Friends of mine who emigrated from Cape Town decades ago describe the place as having been paradise.
It is. It’s amazing - unless you live in one of these areas.
That was decades ago it was paradise and there was the death sentence so people were afraid of crimes because the white government would have you easily arrested for anything and the country was less violent
@@liam2oliver989 yet you forget that Apartheid was in place decades ago. It was not a paradise, it was a violation of human rights. No wonder people were scared.
Is there any successful country run by blacks? Thinking of Botswana and Namibia. I can't think of too many others? Can't be blaming everything on the past. Too much playing the victim..
there is a big difference between the cape flats and the suburbs,city, wine route they are physical divided by a highways.......to be honest I lived in CT all my life and never noticed the gang activity in the Cape flats.....and that is the problem if your middle class and upper its like another country.
I remember going to cape town back in 2018 and when i toured the city of cape town, i saw the shanty areas around the cape flat and many people wouldn't want to go out of the bus because they knew the area is so dangerous and has gangsters around it.
I have been there for 4 days in 2018 - I lived in CBD , spent time in sea point & V&A waterfront ,& climbed the table mountains - Really a world class city and I would go back any time
only on that side of the mountain where it is predominantly rich white people. Visit the other side of the mountain and you will truly experience what it's like as a colored or black person living in this Country. The sites you visited are basically for tourists.
FYI the video clips at 3.33 and 3.43 are fake. The one at 3.33 was a hoax and the other one was part on a set of a movie.
South Africa is a fake democracy, the army is patrolling the streets & curfews at night.
its fake but those kinds of shootings happen on a daily
the reality of the situation is these issues will always happen around the world, there will always be wars, famine, poverty etc. where there is a top, there will be a bottom, there is a ying, there will be a yang, there is light there will be darkness, the only things we can do is try to minimize or not be on the "negative" side of nature. give back time, money and help if ur in a place to do so, dont try to "fix" this dual concept of nature, it will always exist, simply try to manage it. if u try to fix it youll end up hopeless and depressed. i personally dont think the world will change till Christ returns. until then we must simply do the best we can.
I agree it's been like that since the beginning of mankind I don't think
It will ever it's just life and life will never be fair
@@czaralexander5156 ps Chris Oyakhilome. We can change things don't accept this. We can each do one small thing
How can you change crime people been killing
Each since the beginning of time
Insta-journalist mentions nothing about the recent influx of people from Eastern Cape and the effect of "Black Economic Empowerment - BEE" policies on job market. Rampant drug abuse and ineffective policy is also a huge factor, but she fails to make the connection > No new information or insight > Unsubscribe
And no mention of other policies and underhand strategies by the national government to throttle services to that province either.
Lol, BI blames Zuma. Police corruption has been big since the Mandela presidency, but of course international media could never bring themselves to point out how his tenure was a massive failure in every way except the public relations variety.
This country is so dangerous . The last time i was there , i planned on stayijg for a week . I had a music video gig. Apparently the artist had a problem with a gang. They nearly killed us during the video shoot. I came back to my country after two days
Depends on what side of the country you go to
All depends where you go, there is lovely places here. It's like most other countries, but the crime and gangs in certain parts are n big problem yes
All depends on where you go. Not the entire country is dangerous... Only certain parts
that time of stuff screws up tourism money
You're very lucky
Such a SHAME!!! Such a BEAUTIFUL city!
Violence starts at home unfortunately, the father not respecting the mother first exposing children to violence and trauma, children are not disciplined at home and it is not encouraged by communities for everyone toconfirm the discipline in the homes. It takes a village. Children are desensitized to violence by parents allowing them to watch violent movies, be rude, swearing etc and also in these communities children can even watch gangs fighting with parents consent. People should be encouraged to be more self sufficient to stop depending on government for handouts instead by mobilising to change their situations. This is challenging when people live in small spaces far away from their workplaces.Other challenges are of course poor people are still the ones having too many children and they themselves aren't well educated so they pass it on to the next generation. This whole situation makes all these people more vulnerable to all these situations like gangsterism,molestation, drug abuse, gender based violence etc. So it a cold comfort to love in the most beautiful city , Cape Town, in the world where everything is overpriced and out of reach for ordinary people. Many of the see children and adults haven't been to all the fantastic sites and natural beauty that tourists can so easily visit. Now the government is selling off land so rapidly to foreigners that it becomes almost impossible for local buyers to afford to stay in the sought after areas. Most of the people in the coloured population have high IQs, genetically or because of ancestry, but low education this creates leaders being created but for negative reasons like gang leaders, drug lords etc.
Why are nobody doing anything about the poverty, as long as the social injustice remain, nothing will change !
Exactly, creating more authorities will curb the violence and criminality. The system is designed to be exactly as it is. Giving and creating opportunities for people to live a decent and dignified life is the only thing that will work.
cape town wasn't that violent before but now its getting dangerous
it is very dangerous more than or like latin america
this is going to be so much threats for the tourists as well
Nah it ain't as dangerous as latin America 800 murdered through a week in Tijuana, Mexico cape town can't compete
@@TrapAntz Mexico definetly is worse but Cape Town defs can compete. 11th most violent city in the world
@@gw2500 but Tijuana Mexico is 3rd or first
@@TrapAntz yeah I know it’s somewhere there on the list..like I said Mexico is worst no doubt but Cape Town is not far from it
If you want the south African police to show up quickly, just say you found 50g of marijuana. They're very responsive if they're not in any potential danger
How? We have a wild guess.
Ya'll talking about the ANC being a problem... but, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't the WC ran by the DA? Lol.
Yes when Cape Town gets praised they thank the D.a but when it is criticized people immediately blame the ANC. The D.a like to cover their stories for the tourists. The dislikes are definitely from white Cape Tonians.
This problem has been you over 100 years, the same gangs, just different times, things would be even worse if DA wasn't in charge.
Stjek
@@subwaysurfer5378 its very funny though lol
The DA can only push back on the anc's discriminate policies but the anc is ultimately in charge.
Gooooo Gordon!!!! Proud of that big man!!
As in any big city there are places you just don’t go to. I am a Capetonian living in the UK and feel very safe where I live, but there are some neighbourhoods l would never walk around during the day let alone at night. It’s the same in every big city
Can we just take a moment and speak about how the government makes it worst.
Put lie detectors in all South African government offices and police stations and watch the economy turbocharge. Once tourists and foreign investors see honest civil servants, the economic and social credibility of South Africa knows no bounds. Zuma plundered - the lie detectors reinstall confidence. Honest civil servants create a climate for formal investors. Tourists are very impressed by the lack of corruption and crime. Economic miracles usually occur when the IMF demands corruption reforms, South Africa could do it with lie detectors fast, for less then One Million Rand.
One of my best friends was murdered there in 2001. They never found who did it.
I feel sorry for ur loss, i hope u feel better.
This looks so much like what's going on in South American countries at the moment.
And Central American countries and Caribbean countries and Asian countries and in Oceanian countries.
I play soccer for Hanover Parks semi-pro team its crazy what goes on there
Instant solution, "Lie Detectors" in all South African government offices and police stations. Once honest civil servants appear, then the tourists and foreign investors will turbocharge South Africa's economy and crime will be less attractive to the young! Making the transition from an economy pillaged by Zuma to a healthy one - is easy. For one million Rand, the lie detectors will resuscitate South Africa's economy, FAST! Then watch South Africa blossom!
Cape Town is the most class divided society, you should ask yourself why Cape Town is this dangerous and JHB, DBN, PTA, PE isn’t this dangerous
@Jan van Riebeeck Stop saying Cape Town is safe. It isn't
Economists- Take some extra time and write close captions in CZcams
Brian watch " Africa Addio" on you tube! You might learn something.
@@hanskolver1094 I watched it before. I don't think the full 3 hour version is on CZcams though.
The video is in English...
Where did we go wrong😔🇿🇦
Hmm think really hard about when all this started
When white governance left.
Apartheid legacy and the current corruption happening from police and government
Wow these dudes have pretty smart tech to monitor gun violence
How do you not mention that the national government determines how many police officers are needed for an area but they don’t want to dispatch police in those areas because its controlled by opposition parties? This is one of the largest reasons the DA can’t get crime under control there it’s sick
When the situation reaches this point, well, to be honest I believe it's almost a lost cause. The whole system is so rotten that fixing it would demand measures that nobody wants to take and the whole world would be against. It's a proof that unfortunately democracy can destroy itself from inside. I fell sorry for all these people, but I dont think it can get better.
What measures?
Crime in South Africa is political problem, if government wants they can hangout democracy for while and swipe all crime from the roots
Great video.
I grew up in standfontein than wynberg. Just a little boy use to travel to school alone and walk dangerous paths but that was my only options.