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Cape town south Africa enjoys one of the world's most striking settings. But like the rest of the country, the city is suffering the plague 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 suburb that was a tranship for a part-time's outcasts.

Charky is twenty, a rudeness product of the brutal environment. He has no ties to anyone, and he's looking for something that feels like a family. In Manenberg that often means join in a gang. Down this neat street walk gangs like the Ameicans, the Hard-livings and the Clever Kids.

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

As lord of the Clever Kids, jackal sets the cruel, criminal agenda. But he's more than a leader of the pack, he's a father figure. For many clever kids, the gang is the closest thing they have to a real family.

Charky has no home. He's parents divorced years ago. He wander a believing with his mother. Until the nighted step-father behave badly, and Charky 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, "Oh, He did 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 Charky has accepted an invitation to Clever Kids headquarters. Join in the gang could provid him with the ceric of family. To keep the preceding secret, members speak in gangster lanuage-- a mix of African and Thousa, a tribal town.

To test Charky's skill and nerve, jackals dares him to cool off the fact, any loo would go to the gang, but he's caught his on his own. At an over path on the edge of the Clever Kids turn, in full view of the neighborhood, Charky poses to kiss traffic on the pedestrian in stairway. Suddenly he snatches a purse. He flees with his victim in tearful persuit, heading for the traffic allies for the gang's territory.

Purse snatch isn't the gang's only source of income. To get pay, they stand streetside, waiting for chances to extort cash from taxi drivers. Most drivers are quit with the contribution, that often asked were donations from behind a pistol. The time is come for Charky's initiation, a greasily ride of blood brotherblood.

Every gang has it's particular ritual. Charkey gets a Clever Kids' tatoo, jabbing to his skin with stone polish. The newest gungster has the horour of the meeting's first of all of chemically enhance **. His new mates make a pistol clear that they have replaced the family he was born into.

We are your family. You must go kill even your father for your brother, because it is one blood.

Their roster longer by one. The Clever Kids head on to Manenberg's murdery * . Charky is their brother now, bond by blood and ready to face the darkness that the only family he really has.