Per-Anders Pettersson
IN TRANSITION: SOUTH AFRICA: IN TRANSITION
IN TRANSITION
A police officer places a blanket over a dead man outside a shack in Site B Khayelitsha, a township located approximately 21 miles outside Cape Town, South Africa, 2001. The man and two others came to rob people in the house and a firefight broke out. Khayelitsha is one of the poorest and fastest growing townships in South Africa. People usually come from the rural areas in the Eastern Cape province to find work in the city.
A police officer places a blanket over a dead man outside a shack in Site B Khayelitsha, a township located approximately 21 miles outside Cape Town, South Africa, 2001. The man and two others came to rob people in the house and a firefight broke out. Khayelitsha is one of the poorest and fastest growing townships in South Africa. People usually come from the rural areas in the Eastern Cape province to find work in the city.
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