Friday 28 September 2007
7:35pm

Cape Town is the darling of the jet set; the back drop to fashion shoots and a tourist Mecca. But as this week’s Unreported World reveals, behind Cape Town’s ultra-glamorous image, it’s now South Africa’s murder capital; gripped by the devastating effects of a highly addictive drug which is tearing the city’s fabric apart. Thirteen years of freedom in South Africa hasn’t translated into prosperity for all. Expectations for the ANC government were high but it’s struggled to raise basic living standards and combat violence in a country where someone is murdered every 30 minutes.