2007-09-15, Criminal Families

Cape 1 Town, South Africa enjoys one of the world's most striking settings. But like the rest of the country, this city is suffering the pain of violence. The murder rate is nearly ten times that of the US. One of the most dangerous places is Manenberg, a township or a solder 2 that was a trash hit for a part-time’s outcast. Chuky is 20, a ruleless product of a brutal 3 environment. He has no ties to anyone, and he’s looking for something that feels like family. In Manenberg, that often means joining a gang. Down this mean streets walk gangs like the Americans, the Hardlivings and the Clever Kids.

We are the Clever Kids, you see. We rob, we kill, you see.

As Lord of the Clever Kids, Jackle sets the clues criminal agenda. But he is more than a leader of the pack, he is a father figure. For many Clever Kids, the gang is the closest thing they have to a real family. Chuky has no home. His parents devoiced years ago. He rounded up living with his mother until the night his step-father behaved badly and Chuky came to blows with him.

And I sit there and watch TV, and I hear my sister crying. And I ask her what’s wrong, and she says, he beat me. And I take a knife out of the cupboard and I stab him. And my mother says I must leave her home.

Now Chuky has accepted in invitation to Clever Kids’ headquarters. Joining the gang could provide him with the sort of family. To keep thre preceding secret, members speak in gangster 4 language ,a mix of Africons and soser, a tribal 5 tongue. To test Chuky’s skill and lurk 6, Jackle stares into pull-off attacks. Any lurk will go to the gang but if he is caught, he is on his own. At an over parts on the edge of Clever Kids *, in full view of the neighborhood, Chuky pauses to keys traffic on the protestrial* way. Suddenly, he slashes 7 a purse. He flees with his victim in tearful pursuit, heading for the trapper's outlets 8 for the gang's territory.

Personage * is only source of income, to get paid they stand streetside waiting for chances to extra cash from taxidrivers. Most drivers are quick with a contribution. *often ask for donations behind the pestle 9. The time has come Chuky’s elicitation 10. A greasily 11 ride of blood brotherhood 12. Every gang has its particular virtue 13. Chuky gets a Clever Kids’ tattoo 14 jacked into his skin with still polish. The newest gangster has the honor of needing the first-score of chemically enhanced *. His new maids make it crystal clear that they have replaced the family he was born into.

You are my family. You must go kill even your father for your brother. Because it is one blood.

Their ruster longer by one. The Clever Kids head on to Manenberg's murderous **. Chuky’s their brother now, bound by blood, and ready to face the darkness with the only family he really has.