Bloody: Police officers respond to a shooting in Manenberg. Areas of the Cape Flats are controlled by gangs, who contest their turf with rival gangs. Photo: Pieter Bauermeister/AFP
Extortion gangs provide ‘services’ through violence and coercion in Western Cape townships
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