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In just three months last year, police reported 263 gang murders on South Africa’s Western Cape — 79 were children who died through gunshot wounds or stabbings.
Cape Town is one of the wealthiest cities in Africa, but also one of the most unequal and divided. The city has become the country’s gang capital with violence centred around townships known as Cape Flats. Here, more than a hundred gangs are fighting for control of the lucrative drugs trade.
This film provides rare access to one of the most volatile communities in the country, Hanover Park, and examines the efforts being made to reduce violence from within.
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Hanover Park, Cape Town
03:04 Pastor Craven Engel
04:08 The pastor meets the neighbourhood watch leader
05:19 4-year-old Davin Africa
06:16 A mother’s grief
09:02 Negotiating with an imprisoned gang boss
11:46 Mongrels shooter pleads for help
13:03 Gang members and rehabilitation
16:19 Where the gunshots meet
16:48 Pastor checking in on a family
17:50 Young man on why he left the gangs
18:40 Nando arrives at rehab
21:04 Young men dreaming of a different future
23:05 Pastor’s team plead with OTF gang leader for peace
24:58 Aftermath of a drive-by shooting
25:06 Shooter on the rampage
25:51 Pastor addresses his congregation
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My prayers 🙏 are with the Pastor during these trials he is facing..
Pastor Steve deserves a special place for his work n trying….❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Hope Holly Spirit will come and over power the whole evil spirit that filled in all parties that are involved in encouraging or recruiting this Gangsterism movement.
And help strengthen those who are endeavour to bring peace in the whole community.
May God help Pastor not to give up on this Holly work he is doing..We are matching over to Jerusalem,God bless.
Cape town speaks a different kind of Afrikaans 😂
Not all young ppl is in a gang most of us is working or going to sxl and so ends up being killed coz our family members are gangsters which is wrong because like I said u stab with a knife u die by a knife u shoot with a gun u die with a gun but it's not like that no more because alot of young ppl isn't involved in gang related things but gets killed for no reason😢❤rip junaid rip Whitney ❤😢
With them its crime
I pray for the kids in Hanover Park, great job to Pastor for doing his part and super proud of Nando – may he never forget that his mom loves him.
Best run province, DA benefit from the violence in CPT. A nation in fear would hardly care about politics. DA been running the western cape for 15 years plus, but can’t get a grip on the main issue we the people living in the cape flats face.
It's time for the world to send military to south Africa and put a stop to this those poor people can not get help from the south African politicians to help them so it's time for the rest of the world to step up and put a stop to gangs
Who is buying drugs while living in poverty? WOW poverty is always the problem. Where are the leaders? Why are they fighting? What does killing each other solve? I thought So. Africa was doing good. I am so sorry for these tragedies. I am afraid this problem through poverty affects many.
Who is supplying the firearms? South Africa has strict, controlled gun ownership including screening and licencing. Guns and bullets are not free, how are children gaining access to them? Especially children in a SLUM?
Who benefits from high crime rates in this area, and the country at large?
Who benefits from all these black people dying?
The churches teach justice and peace we must welcome foreigners into our homes how can you accept foreigners into the country when there is affirmative action against coloured the foreigners are selling drugs to there children to take over there country give them there own country which they worked for for350 years blacks only worked for the country for 2oo years like Lesotho make them proud it is a complex matter please help us America's people things are bad they were not white enough now they are not black enough give them there own country which they worked for
My heart breaks for the mother who lost her two children. Rest in peace, Davin and Amber🤍🤍🕊️🕊️
😢😢😢😢 I wonder ŵhat our African leaders think of this
amen
These are innercity gangs.. the drug cartels are fueld by big shots inside govt. Its very clear this problem is systemic and created by the wealthy and powerful. If you follow the money… you will unearth the problem. The issue of illegal immigrants & foreigners is just a cover.. the root of the problem is deeper
Hi God sees and difficult,trust where u Can not see our only hope ❤
Pastor i want to say thank you for the work you and the team do. Let us continue to Pray for this neighbor hood of Hanover Park. The same place of Bennie McCarthy, Vicky Samson, to name a few.
Two child lost is very devastating
OTF is big as hell 🤦🏾♂️
I pray for all this children that grow up in those hoods…..
Years and years of violence and the government still turns a blind eye
I wish these “Digital Nomads” see the real side of CPT, this is so heartbreaking ❤️🩹
Honestly it's getting quite boring. They don't even sell LSD in the hood.
Well produced documentary, thanks. As a white Capetonian in Hanover Park I'd last 2 minutes before being releived of all possessions including my underpants.
How can I get the contact details of this pastor and their church?