Shacks and shopping malls divide South Africa’s murder capital FEATURE 03/03/2010

Shacks and shopping malls divide South Africa’s murder capital FEATURE 03/03/2010 DURBAN — Walter Masondo stands in his driveway, his grandchildren dashing around his legs, watching a steamroller lay asphalt at a township stadium remodeled as a training venue for the World Cup. The day before, he said he heard gunfire erupt in a nearby part of Durban’s KwaMashu township, which last year held the distinction of being the murder capital of one of the world’s most violent countries, with 300 killings from April 2008 to March 2009. “Some boys said it was thieves,” Masondo said non-chalantly. “But then the boys came back here and they said they had killed the tsotsi (thief).”... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100303com7.html

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