Caught in a cross fire – victims of criminals in Cape Town

The troubled father is lying in a small bed, one and points two small holes in the coin in his house.

This is a solid testimony of a moment that spent his family life forever.

David Eine Year, David was shot dead in February, held at a shooting machine.

He was a victim of the Cape Gape War, townships around the Cape Town – the apartheid death, where the non-white number from the rich city events were asked.

“This is the letters poverder here.” This is where he sleeps. “

The family was enduring inexplaintied panel.

My older sister Kunavin, Kelly Amber, was killed two years earlier, and fired as rivals were expelled from each other. He was 12 years old.

Now Divon and his wife, Undean, have their only young daughter left.

“He asks: ‘Where is your brother?'” Says Underan. “So I told her she was Jesus in my heart and in my heart.”

This was killed in a place known as Wesbank, but the other many families everywhere Cape Flats had to endure the same bad dreams, despite the verification of blood police.

Numbers discuss the shocking story. The Western Cape Province – where the Cape Flats remains – seeing the majority of the majority of South Africa groups, according to police.

Officially, this is a very important thing for the government. President Cyril Ramaphosa set a special unit of fighting criminals in 2018, and distributed the area in the area the following year, but the problem reviewed, and the killing of this continued.

“There is a perfect history and generations of people born in the criminal groups,” said Gares Newham, the head of justice and violence at the security center in Johannesburg.

“[They] flourishing in areas of attention or improved state. Gangers provide the type of social structure that provides services to the community. They provide homemade food. Electricity. Money travel or burying. These gangs even pay school fees. “

Integrated and “That is why it is so hard that the police will find them … It means they can use gang members to keep drugs and shopping weapons”.

But there are people trying to deal with the issue.

Fifteen kilometers (nine kilometers) away from Wesbank is Hanover Park when the pastor Craven Engel is anointed on his leading call almost all day, daily in his quest for peace.

His purpose is to lean on criminals to prevent this cause and murder, and the profitability of the drugs were resurrected. He and his team tried to follow the basic formula: adoption, disturbance and mind reform.

“Hanover Park doesn’t really don’t really have the economy,” says England. “The abundance of the economy leave in drugs. That is the greatest economy.”

Pastor Engel says the influence of apartheid in this area cannot be ignored but no one is common – shown as addicted to drugs and a family breakdown.

“Item [drug] It creates a lack of jobs, the item builds robbery, creates criminal strikes due to turfs. Therefore, this item is living in the middle of the human acts in the community, “said Pastor Opel, estimates that about 70% of local children live with some kind of addiction.

This nearly 50,000 society should endure shooting and stabbing almost daily. And usually young people who kill and kill.

“Policing Equing alone is likely to solve the problem because you can arrest people for members of criminals, with firearms and murder of smaller members.

“How does the child be shot seven or three times on his back? How does the lost bullet hit the baby?” Asks in English.

In its phone, he calls community leaders and folly groups, social groups will always try to operate violently. When the BBC’s eye visits him trying to batter fire for the suspension of two fighters – and they can reach a leader baked in Babel.

“If I want something to happen then. Do you understand the pastor?” The Group Manager shouts line. “But I can tell you one thing. I’m a boy who likes to raise when I get on fire.”

Threats. Even more than the bars in the back.

But the tutor is not lasting. He is very visible in his community, either at a week or before his great and large congregation in the pulpit.

He says: “I think that has done so bad now than many children are involved in the Therab, because criminals rented between eight and 15 years old,” he said.

The running system is not familiar to get government money, but dry. To cut off rows of transportation and protection of innocent, you will meet victims and events anywhere at any time.

He also submits members of a party of renegated to negotiate directly to the warring groups. Those living a life on the edge of death know how important it is to press peace instead.

Glenn Hans is one of that person. She meets competitors to respect the trader. “I was in the game.

The first has a cold response: “When we kill, where we grasp the soil we have, where we can build.

The next condolences that were agreed upon fertile for just a few days, the killing of two people in shooting.

But some hundreds of conflict have been enough.

Fernando – Or Nando – Johnston is in a group called mongrels, and he wants to try to find a way out with English’s help.

The pastor describes Mr Johnston as a young age and “born to a group” when his family was involved.

“In this game there are only two choices – either to go to prison or die,” Mr Johnston said.

“I want to change the guidance and I believe there is always a way. That is the reason that I’m close to the pastor – asking if there is a plan or way to take me.”

He will join the Summer Sumnic Program of the Teacher and Teacher’s renewal and supporting donations designed to create drugs and work.

“Something you can start building again,” Teacher Engel tells him. “You will be able to find yourself work and make money yourself. Then you will not have a trembling and clear here.”

“I’m ready to go, pastor,” said Mr Johnon, ready to leave his beaten and cold community looking for a new way.

Those who are closer to him gather to wish him the good. Her mother, Anginine APRIE, holding her tears, interesting, in this case, her son will choose life. “Please do the best of this opportunity, Nando,” she said.

“Yes Mummy, I always take the best attitude.”

But that’s never easy.

“Fernando’s father was the gang of a group but my children’s mother was a gentle man,” said Mr. Johnston’s mother.

“But because he was a gang, and children were involved in gangstersmimities despite my constant warning.

And so far the good of Mr Johnston. Two weeks from startup program, he is still there.

“Nanda stays. You are still busy. She is busy seeing her family, seeing her children.

Hope is an unusual property here, but sometimes it appears with the cracks that have seen the great tribulation.

Not all roads, however. The smallest hope is found in Devon Africa and the House of Under Kooopman, living in the war of the navy.

The murder cycle and revenge caused by the struggle for this beautiful city of South Africa is surprised by many who simply struggling to survive.

And those caught in the middle should sometimes make impossible decisions.

“Members of the public, even if they are opposed to gangs, they are not pro policemen for two reasons,” said Mr Nuham.

“Another is that they do not just know that the police will arrive when they are called. And if they call the police, you do not know that the police are corrupt.

Feelings that are shown by the peaceful workers in the battle. “No one will come up anywhere to help or save us abroad. Not at our home government. No one will come to local government.

“As individuals we need to be very willing to build stiffness, create hope for our people and grow. Because politics have failed.”

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