God no!... We still haven't really found a way to move away from apartheid spatial planning, and people still largely live in segregated areas, not by force, but it is just the way people still do shit.
When the new government took over they started giving poor people small monetary grants to help pay for diapers etc. You can imagine what happened... People made babies for grant money.
At the same time, farm workers were starting to demand permanent housing on the farms, etc... And the farmers started finding ways of laying off people, adding more people to the most poverty-stricken areas.
Now you should also know poverty breeds poverty, and these areas became hotspots for gangsters. There are heaps of these gangs, but they stay in their areas. It is too dangerous to leave...
Even the places mentioned aren't affected in totality, It is usually the poorest suburb in the town or maybe even an informal squatters camp.
These gangs live by the gun, I think they shoot like 10 of each other each day, and many innocent people in their areas suffer as a result.
It is those people who have been begging the army to be deployed so they can sit upright in their houses and walk in the streets without fear of being hit by stray bullets.
These are no areas you and I are likely to end up in, even accidentally... Although I did use to hang in the most dangerous of those places with real skollies when I still did drugs in my young days.
I'm bipolar so when you add drugs, my decision making lacks calibration.
There's one just around the corner from my friends house, they don't even try hiding what they're doing. http://www.happyhappyspa.com/about.html
