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South Africa, the second biggest economy on the African continent, is now struggling to meet the electricity demand. Eskom, the state-owned utility which supplies 95% of the country’s electricity, is having problems with its coal-fired plants due to a lack of maintenance and delays in new power plant constructions.
One can find them all over South Africa. They work behind closed doors, in dark rooms surrounded by shelves filled with medicine bottles, ground herbs, animal bones and goat’s and cow’s hair.
The Hard Livings, The Clever Kids, Thug Life, The Americans and The Junky Funky Kids… the list goes on. These names, as infamous as they are comical, have become ingrained in the vocabulary of almost every Capetonian, regardless of social economic status, colour or creed. It is no wonder this pernicious integration has occurred; with over 130 gangs in the Cape Flats area alone with membership in the hundreds of thousands, the effect of gang culture pervades the lives of many.
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