In Cape Town, one of the richest cities in all of Africa, gang-related killings and drug use are rampant.
A new intervention program called Ceasefire is finding remarkable success by getting in the middle of the conflict.
Watch this gripping 10-minute documentary from AJ+, War In The Valley of Plenty, focusing on the Ceasefire Cure Violence programme in Cape Town’s Hanover Park, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
The documentary follows the Ceasefire Cure Violence programme in Cape Town’s Hanover Park.
“Last month there were 30 shots fired,” Pastor Craven Engel, the Ceasefire program coordinator said in a statement.
“The month before that, there were 70 shots fired. This month we’ve got 650 shots fired. The area’s quite tense at the moment. Very tense.”
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