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@user-nq4jd5ys1g9 күн бұрын
You can’t make an honest comment with all your restrictions, this is why we have all these problems, people can’t be honest about what they see, honesty is misconstrued as one or other of your restrictions, rather just show your videos without allowing comments
@everythingButTheRat9 сағат бұрын
@@user-nq4jd5ys1g You are so right. How can we solve anything if we have no freedom of speech? Only the truth shall set us free.
@michaelgerardcondon853114 күн бұрын
I have such respect for this journalist. He is a real gentleman and am impressed.
@pajerry3312 күн бұрын
I found this online "GOVAN WHITTLES Govan Whittles is a general news and political multimedia journalist at the Mail & Guardian. Born in King William's Town in the Eastern Cape, he cut his teeth as a radio journalist at Primedia Broadcasting. He produced two documentaries and one short film for the Walter Sisulu University, and enjoys writing about grassroots issues, national politics, identity, heritage and hip-hop culture."
@phutilanga204714 күн бұрын
Carteblanche constantly reminds me why I enrolled to study law. Even in these long nights I know one day I will help young people who go through things like this.👌🏾❤
@user-bx9nu9id7d14 күн бұрын
😂 yea right, by putting them in prison...
@phutilanga204714 күн бұрын
@@user-bx9nu9id7d😂😂 you didn’t hav to put it like that
@Asakhe34614 күн бұрын
How will you help them?
@mytuh413 күн бұрын
@@user-bx9nu9id7d LOL true. Boggles my mind that lawyers think they are offering a useful and positive service in our society.
@nkosinathimnisi21539 күн бұрын
Eish youthful graduate hope. Sa is a mess😢
@ChuckTaylorSA8 күн бұрын
I'm born and raised on the flats. As a 40 year old man. I still cry every time I see the kids and mom, grandmas in these documentaries. It's like I see my own family. Soul wrenching stuff.
@jellibear201114 күн бұрын
I used to be a social worker working in Lavender Hill and Hanover Park. The conditions there were and still are really terrible and dangerous. I used to be stressed every day - dealing with poverty, gangsterism, domestic violence and abuse even animal abuse became too much for me. Life is worth nothing there I'm glad I got out of that environment.
@pajerry3312 күн бұрын
My mom was too. Her colleague was shot dead in his office by a father who was about to have his kids placed in a safer home. She worked for CAFDA in Grassy Park.
@fionavanderhaer493415 күн бұрын
My brother & I are proof of surviving those living conditions 50yrs ago, vicious killings, pangas, knives, gang rapes, drugs etc were the norm then. Guns are the new norm every day now, but the basics still apply. Parents should help to get their kids out of that environment to save them. PTSD catches up later in many forms in later life unfortunately. Save ur kids please. All the best.
@jasmine_ly15 күн бұрын
This is so heartbreaking. It sad to see young people go through this.
@NeotheeOne15 күн бұрын
My heart bleeds for these children. You have to be so morally bankrupt to initiate a child into this. You have to be someone who's so far detached from any sense of humanity to do this. There was no voice, no conscious, nothing that said we are taking it to far.
@bennitom357315 күн бұрын
eysh Neo.
@KKOPPONG12 күн бұрын
My cousin died 2 months back. He was black though. He was arrested and after his release denounced the gang life. I got a call he’d been killed in Cape Town and by people he knew because he was called outside by someone he knew and had a “friendship” with. That person was never identified but the neighbours said when he was called out he approached them happily and they just shot him and ran. He had called me while in prison asking to come stay with me, I refused because he had gone in to deep with the gang life and wanted no part of it. He chose his fate, I wasn’t going to endanger my life because his past was chasing him. I have a 7 year old to provide for. He wasted his 21 years of life. I’m not wasting my 29.
@user-sd7cv1zb7m9 күн бұрын
sad!
@blueberryhill694813 күн бұрын
This breaks my heart so much. Growing up as a colored South African is hard and when you grow up your back is sometimes up against a wall of challenges that seem insurmountable at times
@lolasoares146415 күн бұрын
Problem starts with adults, single parents , no responsibility. Don’t have kids if you can’t take care of them!
@princefilmfactory729114 күн бұрын
The problem in the coloured area is parents they don't discipline their kids and they let them stop going to school, when the parent don't care why should a child care. I work in maneneberg and I see it all the time. Parents don't care and coloured communities don't know how to mobilize because that's all they need to end gang violence
@Zangettsu_ZA14 күн бұрын
I have this saying, and harsh as it may sound, it is true. "Don't breed what you can't feed". Me and my wife would love to have a child, but sadly we cannot afford one at the moment and I refuse to have a child if I can't give him/her better than what I had. That was how my parents raised me and that is how I will raise my child.
@princefilmfactory729114 күн бұрын
Honestly I don't blame them breeding remember majority is unemployed so what do you think happened during that boredom
@Tshabalalaaj14 күн бұрын
You leaving the dream if only life and choices were as easy as you think.
@ndimumnini589414 күн бұрын
that is convenient. there is plenty of gangsters from middle class actually
@lillyslapsilly11 күн бұрын
thanks for doing this story with compassion. Its sad that our Government has nothing in place to break this cycle of abuse and violence in the Cape Flats.
@sharontarin131015 күн бұрын
It's so true, you don't stab your social worker without having some serious anger issues.
@Mothercityguy15 күн бұрын
got to do with upbringing
@sharontarin131015 күн бұрын
@@Mothercityguy extreme hurt. Anger is always a product of hurt.
@andiledlamini613514 күн бұрын
We are loosing another generation through drugs, gangsterism 😢😢😢😢
@LeboMokwena2313 күн бұрын
It is very sad💔
@pajerry3312 күн бұрын
Thank you Govan Whittles and your team at Carte Blanche. My mom worked for 30 years there with CAFDA Grassy Park, Lavender Hill area. She lost a colleague ... shot. He was a social worker.
@timtam964615 күн бұрын
South Africa needs gang laws like in other countries. It must be illegal to recruit children in a gang . A database of all street gangs and there bosses must be developed
@jancovanderwesthuizen807015 күн бұрын
You don’t think it already is illegal to recruit children to a gang? Gangs don’t usually stop doing things because they’re illegal
@tsheposeeletso647515 күн бұрын
El Salvador did it
@jancovanderwesthuizen807015 күн бұрын
@@tsheposeeletso6475 Yeah by mass imprisoning people. Maybe if they gave the PA and Gayton McKenzie the ministry of police, that could work in SA too. But not with Bheki Cele Gayton has talked about Nayib Bukele in a podcast I listened to, he’s probably SA’s closest equivalent Plus things would have to work very differently in the courts as well, police alone isn’t even enough
@timtam964615 күн бұрын
@@jancovanderwesthuizen8070 nothing is being done about 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
@timtam964615 күн бұрын
@@tsheposeeletso6475 I know and it works .It is that simple .
@selwynaddinallkallardtv676115 күн бұрын
🎉🎉🎉 Dankie Govan, telling the Brown man story! We need help. 😢❤
@BongChoke13 күн бұрын
Thanks for this piece Govan 🙏 Breities is proud of you.
@Zangettsu_ZA14 күн бұрын
SAPS needs to be completely overhauled. And gangsterism needs to be completely outlawed as has been the case in El Salvador. By cracking down hard, the current generation will be lost, but all of the next generations will be free and the Cape Flats can start to prosper.
@jancovanderwesthuizen807015 күн бұрын
Shame, you can see this hits Govan harder than a lot of the other stuff does
@garyschei15 күн бұрын
Absolutely. And he is truly a gem for South Africa ❤
@Dupedupedean14 күн бұрын
The so called GNU or coalition should deal with this issue once and for all!
@KKOPPONG12 күн бұрын
The ANC hasn’t had the ability to stop anything. The DA has also willingly neglected this so what hope do you have that the combination of underachievers will achieve anything? They’ve both failed these communities so what do you expect them now?
@Dupedupedean12 күн бұрын
@@KKOPPONG key word *should*
@nokwandashazi232414 күн бұрын
I love this channel I am mainly watching it to educate myself especially my communication skills
@davidphillips576114 күн бұрын
But if Gayton Mckenzie highlights this and avocading for a plan of action, people call him an ex convict.
@sharontarin131015 күн бұрын
Sadly these kids are killing little ones. It's a really hard one. Do they need psychological help or prison? I hope the new government is able to change these slum areas to liveable areas where children have better opportunities. I'm sure poverty and boredom play a big role.
@fredrickgentz144315 күн бұрын
Tnx for posting this
@adondoesntwearshorts612215 күн бұрын
Children need their fathers in the home ( structure)
@Shantel_Leo14 күн бұрын
Many of their fathers are gangsters so...
@morocoblack13 күн бұрын
Problem starts with Government not giving back proper services, dignity and respect to community instead of empty promises
@cheznone929614 күн бұрын
The thing is these kids are indoctrinated by social media and influencers. Children have no concept of the danger and they are utilised to the max. Although they kick up against their parents, teachers, police. Their need to be tough, looked up to, and their admiration for the big talk, and the power of a gun is so very hard to avoid when it’s in your face 24/7. In suburbs where there is no gang warfare, there are groups of gangs who meet at shopping centres, shoplift, bully other kids, and generally control an environment subversively. Everyone is so caught up looking at their phones they’re not aware of what’s happening around them. For kids in the Cape flats - going to juvenile detention is the worst thing that can happen. They come out with a need to be tougher and better than the worst, with new skills in cruelty and illegal dealings. How do you clean a crime haven up? I wish I had the answer.
@__SM__114 күн бұрын
This is a systemic issue, created by men. Those who see the light is the ones who survive and outgrow this system. Hard Truth.
@melanyben787115 күн бұрын
Lord be with these kids. Protect the ones who do not want to join and open the eyes of the ones already in too deep in Jesus name🙏
@marlene923915 күн бұрын
this makes me so sad,where is his parents this child need lotsa love ,
@waynespel645612 күн бұрын
Why must our people suffer like this😢😢
@ravenblack705211 күн бұрын
How do we help? How can we help? Children deserve a life, a real life of safety, security with a future to look forward to in awe of the possibilities they can create. We must put an end to this! I don't care about the colour of any community, I simply care about the people of my country.
@Cassini-do8fp15 күн бұрын
It all starts with the fathers...
@KKOPPONG12 күн бұрын
When I was 14-16 I just couldn’t understand how people my age became gangsters. It’s obviously so hard to sympathise with people who’s shoes you can’t be in & that’s probably the toughest disconnect between us and them. When you’re in the same living conditions but a different mindset it becomes even harder to understand how these minds work.
@HarmonicRezolution8 күн бұрын
That poor young lad Deurico and his Mum. Heartbreaking
@Jay-rd3hn13 күн бұрын
Under age kids shouldn’t recruited to gangs same as it’s illegal for under age kids to drink alcohol or gamble or employed. DA is doing well in cape town but gangs are left unchecked and regulated. DA is the problem in cape flats that’s why is being voted because gangs know that DA will do nothing with gangs.
@gomolemoramanteba687615 күн бұрын
What Sad times we live in😢😢😢😢
@germaineludik11 күн бұрын
How can we help these kids? How can we help these families? For starters, these gangs need to be removed from these communities
@lxonthemix83415 күн бұрын
Can you please upload full episodes
@jadejadarockagreen727112 күн бұрын
I grew up in lavender hill ,we were taught to steal ,deal & k...ll just to fit in with what we thought was real
@kaizersuze900015 күн бұрын
Very sad ❤
@karabomakwetla462613 күн бұрын
This just made my day so sour. How long have these gangs been operating for?
@sunshinetv92149 күн бұрын
Decades it’s not new just a sad repeat cycle.
@mossfairy306015 күн бұрын
It's a vicious cycle.. it's truly sad!
@deciodasilva396014 күн бұрын
I actually don't even know what to say about this, it's a very sad situation.😢
@Roshin-nz3np15 күн бұрын
So SAD
@BOBBY-et9xb15 күн бұрын
They must be charged and sentenced as adults.
@mcebisimbusi777711 күн бұрын
Western Cape DA ruling party knows welk about this gang and drugs in the township but they dint have any tactics to stop it
@buyanifakudze348912 күн бұрын
This piece was very personal to the team😢😢😢.... I look at this long standing problem and wonder how the amazing DA doesn't seem to make any serious progress. And now, they shut out important voices in the so called GNU which might have helped fix these issues...
@heinrichfourie64547 күн бұрын
This is so sad that gangsters can rule towns like this and nobody can stop them
@bulelanibotman6 күн бұрын
heart breaking for real, i would like to know from the people who were able to escape this reality is what would be the solution to this?
@tumelomokoena613114 күн бұрын
Such communication have adults who are using drugs and drinking alcohol. Families are dysfunctional
@edithchirwa991712 күн бұрын
😢😢😢
@LwaziMalaza12 күн бұрын
😭😭😭😭 stabbed 57x this is sad y don't the President send soldiers to restore order
@maureenshaw86338 күн бұрын
Frightening and shocking I would never visit there that's for sure 😮
@thobekaninkosi410313 күн бұрын
why don't you show a DA Mayer that suppose to make life better for that community?
@shawnberry611014 күн бұрын
I come from Moray Court opposite the Terminus and went to Blomvlei Primary and the Our Lady of the Rosary Church. What they are talking about now is the same things we went through 45 years ago. It's really sad to see that nothing has changed there. One would think that those who had to live through gang violence and apartheid would want better for their kids.
@Madiela5 күн бұрын
The problem starts with parents who never wanted to be parents
@marlenesnyders653715 күн бұрын
Fatherlessness. 😭
@jn892215 күн бұрын
And women unfit to raise children. Generational curses.
@gxobinjasambemntungwa969415 күн бұрын
100%the truth Our South Africans won't like but political correctness
@anitamarshall98048 күн бұрын
They are, too a large extent, severely neglected children.
@everythingButTheRat9 сағат бұрын
This is DEFINITELY not a place to bring up children. I don't understand why people still make babies in poor, violent, hopeless communities like these. Can someone please make me understand why people still make babies in such communities.
@marcusntapolebelo155115 күн бұрын
How do you reach 60 years without bullet wounds in Cape flats? Looks like the average lifespan is very low shame
@nariemabaderoen77148 күн бұрын
Great
@gavinsmith24659 күн бұрын
How come it's always previously disadvantaged people....
@pikestyler798913 күн бұрын
Does anyone think that if alternatives was offered and communities like this was was developed these kids would have chosen the gang life start with the core of the problem ,we are not gangsters we have been abandoned ,abused, targeted from the beginning because the blood of the true custodians of this land runs through our veins , point !
@wayneggain36189 күн бұрын
😢
@Lily-ed2sc11 күн бұрын
This country has failed in so many ways
@ShamielJohnstone15 күн бұрын
Sports grass roots level!!!!!!! Where's the money for our children's sports grounds, teachers etc... Social ills needs an outlet, and The answer is sports!!!!!
@sakabula235714 күн бұрын
As soon as you build a park or sport grounds the stuff gets stolen and sold as scrap metal...even schools gets broken into and vandalized
@BennyKedama-oh7iz9 күн бұрын
I work in these places, but itsnt bad like the media tells us.
@user-io5sp4fs6i8 күн бұрын
Young women are pregnant, living off social grant , no ambition to complete high school and better their circumstance, community and parents are to blamed what happening there
@rukeshrambally531213 күн бұрын
😥😥😥😥
@baza74008 күн бұрын
give our laaities more options and opportunities to heal all this .
@gboymrgreen661814 күн бұрын
PA boys
@Turkish27715 күн бұрын
That one my homie, breities and shows no fear. 😅😅😅
@spinespindle987214 күн бұрын
As a white man, I will admit that colored people are the most marginalized group in South Africa
@mytuh413 күн бұрын
As a white man, I resist that notion. White people are the most marginalised group in this country!
@user-vn2ez4rk3s13 күн бұрын
The main reason for the marginalion of the coloured group is because of your forefathers selfish and creedy policy called APARTHEID. Respect to you for noticing the plight of us. Wish all 'white people' will come to this realisation. The solution to this big problem in our community is a mind shifting action and to assisting the coloured youth to striving to be the best in live.
@spinespindle987213 күн бұрын
@user-vn2ez4rk3s im not afrikaans. My forefathers done nothing to contribute toward it. They were simple village folk from Spain and knew nothing of apartheid. And what did the anc do for the colored community when apartheid was dismantled? Try read between the lines and try deviate a little from the same talking points .
@JJisWC9212 күн бұрын
ANC Was to busy looting and planning on what to loot FACTS... it wasnt just Mandela at robin Island in fact it was coloured man who was with him in those cells as well. Now we sit with another issue where foreign Africans are taking advantage of our people being hungry and need money
@khoicpt8 күн бұрын
@@spinespindle9872 spanish were almost as bad as the british
@niel1986112 күн бұрын
The adults in those neighbourhoods are to blame for the downfall on their children. They can easily take down the gang bosses if they stand together as a community, but instead nothing is done and their children get driven into these gangs, and the cycle repeats over and over, generation after generation.
@QB-Marhadebe14 күн бұрын
This is said
@CrazyAi16613 күн бұрын
Some of our Coloured brothers fights wars abroad..like the 1 of Libya.. Government say nothing..
@glennborrageiro625714 күн бұрын
Build the army and send them in.
@MoAfrika-Afrika14 күн бұрын
If there was a political will this could be minimized.
@skhosanamathiyane7 күн бұрын
Ntho tse etsahalang lefatsheng,,ekae DA,,look DA doesn't care about black people, why they don't stop this,,including useless ANC
@theuploader01113 күн бұрын
That stats are true in prison by 25 years or dead by 25years sad reality in cape flats
@Nate-ly6ej14 күн бұрын
A result of a failed and biased ANC of 30 years
@sikelelashaun390314 күн бұрын
Why
@dimakatsomachethe348913 күн бұрын
I think cloured have a problem with blood because mix masala problems always
@chosen1afrique30412 күн бұрын
Uyagula wena how can you say such a thing?! As if thina we don't have issues with violence in our black communities. Some of you black people are prejudice af and have a false heir of superiority over others. It's sick!
@khoicpt8 күн бұрын
Due to the s*xual access the coloniser had to our foremothers
@luhellin19614 күн бұрын
NP…DA.
@riaanpotgieter4759 күн бұрын
Child soldiers???!!! No!!! Criminals!!!!
@ilovemusicmauricelouw805815 күн бұрын
😢😢😢😢😢😢🌍🇿🇦😭😭😭
@ianbrodie505110 күн бұрын
This is because of so much youth unemployment. Sort out jobs for the youth and this won't happen.
@nkambuleGhoostface14 күн бұрын
How I thought you were investigating the school children being recruited to go to Israel from Cape town
@paddydark424513 күн бұрын
Where is d evidence?
@NkosikhonaMdluli8 күн бұрын
It always the best run province what a joke
@paddydark424513 күн бұрын
FAKE THUMBNAIL
@Bluecollarjoe6B915 күн бұрын
ANC government
@nnn850215 күн бұрын
ANC is enrolling them into these gangs?
@princefilmfactory729114 күн бұрын
Lol😂 anc?
@isaaccpt664314 күн бұрын
@@nnn8502 the leadership has got to be blamed. The most undeserved police stations. Highest amount of gang murders. Yes they are to blame for not stopping it and not maintaining law and order. It's the same like the Zama zamas they are to blame for not maintaining law and order
@user-bx9nu9id7d14 күн бұрын
@@nnn8502yes
@Ritesh-yy1zr14 күн бұрын
@@isaaccpt6643 exactly. It's either they incompetent or lazy. The SAPS is one of the most useless organisations.
@tanndobaloyi333814 күн бұрын
All this in the best run city in South Africa?
@stblad314 күн бұрын
So what should the best run city do for children having children?
@runningman298913 күн бұрын
Bheki Cele was in charge of Police dont come blame DA