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Family want answers after daughter killed in police raid

Family want answers after daughter killed in police raid By Lethu Nxumalo Share The family of a woman who was killed by police last month, along with five alleged gangsters accused of terrorising Pietermaritzburg, want answers as they believe their daughter was innocent. Mandisa Phakathi, 19, died of gunshot wounds to the head when police raided a Scottsville home that had been under surveillance. One of the occupants killed in the raid was Sphelele Ntsuntsu Mkhize, the alleged gang mastermind, who had escaped from a police truck on its way from New Prison to the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court in April.

PHOTOS: Improvised Library Brings Joy Of Books To Kids Living In Gang Territory

Terence Crowster, a social worker who has been an avid reader since he was young, solicited donations to start the Hot-Spot Library in Scottsville, Cape Town, so kids would have a safe place to connect with books. They call it the Hot-Spot library: a ramshackle building of plywood and sheet metal set on a crime-ridden street corner in Cape Town, South Africa. With its threadbare couches and mismatched carpets, the place looks somewhat dilapidated. On winter days, rain leaks through holes in the corrugated zinc roof and drips down onto the tables and bookshelves. Built around a pair of aging shipping containers, it may not look like your conventional library. But for the residents of Scottsville, a neighbourhod torn apart by drug abuse and gang violence, it offers a safe space to escape the harsh realities of daily life and to explore different worlds in the pages of thousands of donated second-hand books.

PHOTOS: The Hot-Spot Library Was Born In Two Shipping Containers In A Cape Town Slum

PHOTOS: The Hot-Spot Library Was Born In Two Shipping Containers In A Cape Town Slum
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PHOTOS: Improvised Library Brings Joy Of Books To Kids Living In Gang Territory

by Tommy TrenchardJun, 27 2021 Terence Crowster, a development worker who has been an avid reader since he was young, solicited donations to start the Hot-Spot Library in Scottsville, Cape Town, so kids would have a safe place to connect with books. Image: Tommy Trenchard for NPR They call it the Hot-Spot library: a ramshackle building of plywood and sheet metal set on a crime-ridden street corner in Cape Town, South Africa. With its threadbare couches and mismatched carpets, the place looks somewhat dilapidated. On winter days, rain leaks through holes in the corrugated zinc roof and drips down onto the tables and bookshelves.

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