Cape Town’s proposed 8km security wall along the N2 highway has sparked fierce debate.
City officials say the 3m barrier is needed to protect motorists from stone-throwing attacks, violent robberies and ambushes on the route linking the airport to the city centre.
Critics argue the wall will do little to curb crime and will instead deepen social divisions, further separating impoverished neighbourhoods such as Nyanga and Gugulethu from wealthier areas more than 30 years after apartheid ended. The project is estimated to cost roughly nine million dollars.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports from Cape Town, South Africa.
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It's a bad idea to build a wall.
Because it will not change anything about criminal activities and it will only increase the eniquality between the poor and the wealthy.
Couldn’t that money be invested into the community?
South Africa = failed State
And the DA is better? 🤣
DA doesn’t care about no black people 😭🤣
Anyone against the building of the wall is probably one of those naaiers throwing that bricks
Im sure they are better ways ten to turn Cape town to an apartheid regime
Keep on voting for the ANC, EFF and MKP parties and it will get worse, they are all ANC just different names, talkers and thieves no brains to govern.
You put up cameras and the next day they are gone
The ANC built a wall there and it was dismantled for shack building, if it is going to save lives and prevent an easy route for thieves, then who cares what a hand full of people have to say or even other political parties who just look for voter support
They don't even care about cameras, they don't even try to hide in places with them. Whoever will be watching those footages will be entertained with kisses they'll be blowing and middle fingers at that camera
$9 000 000!!!!! Why?
quem diria
Use the money to build better housing in different areas and dismantle the area.
legacy of Apartheid.
This is a step to Cape independence. smh
The wall has the full support of the majority of law abiding citizen.
Cameras and a good Prison sentence for these people committing these Crimes…!!! Examples of People causing problems No Matter who they are!!!
long overdue
Build the wall 😂😂😂😂
Until the "community activists", "social justice warriors" and apologists can get these people to change their criminal ways, walls are necessary to keep travelers SAFE. Anyone who throws a brick or rock at a moving vehicle is a potential MURDERER!
Blame Immigrants for this too
The ANC are much worse than the former apartheid,apartheid looked only after their own ,The ANC looks only after themselves not even their own people
"Put a plaster on that festering wound and conceal it from view' mentality as expected; turn a blind eye on the root causes of the apalling societal inequality. But ya, let the circus go on…
Won't help the people in the township but it would protect the innocent motorists🤷♂️ but they will tear it down anyway🤦♂️
The wall is disgusting. Spending 9 million dollars for a wall instead of fixing socio-economic problems. The democratic alliance and anc are a pathetic.
Fight inequality? But…but…some people ARE less equal than others…that's why we have IQ tests, performance analysis and educational standards…
Yes you'll have the wall but what if the throw stones anyway
The masses are too wild. ANC lost control long time ago
Bad things are happening in South Africa
I dont think they will ever solve the problem of inequality – Itsnot only an african problem – Only 2 classes haves and the have nots – Thats just the way it is!