100,000 gang members in 137 gangs in the Cape Peninsula. In the deadly crossfire, in the city’s poorest township areas such as Mitchell’s Plain and Lavender Hill, there are families living behind the bars of their homes like prisoners. To make matters worse, schoolchildren - innocents taught to “duck and roll” in the earth of their playgrounds at the first sound of gunfire in their community - are the most vulnerable of all. For Cape Town’s most notorious street gangs, such as the 26s, 27s and 28s and their offshoots the Taliban, the Americans and the Hard Livings, the school gates are where their recruitment is done and where the next generation of gang members will be broken down and moulded into cold-blooded killers. Since the fall of apartheid, there has been an explosion of violent crime, mainly carried out by youngsters. It has produced a murder rate of one body every 25 minutes, higher than in most civil wars.
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