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Speaker 1: Good morning k Town.

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Speaker 2: Lester Kibbott, starting your day on k Talk.

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Speaker 1: Now for ground Up news, and of course there's always

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Speaker 1: every Wednesday, joined by Barbara October, who is the ground

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Speaker 1: Up Editor. Good morning, Barbara. I hope you've had a

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Speaker 1: pleasant and rest for long weekend.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Lester, I did. I hope you had a

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Speaker 2: good weekend too.

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Speaker 1: Let's start here where in Raven's Meat backyard, dweller's say

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Speaker 1: they're being sidelined by the city's latest housing project. They're

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Speaker 1: asking questions about the fairness in allocation and who is

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Speaker 1: benefiting from new developments.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so they're basically claiming that they are going to

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Speaker 2: be sidelined for this new housing project that's being built

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Speaker 2: in the area. It's called the Alsis River Info Project

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Speaker 2: and it's you know, the city says it's going to

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Speaker 2: deliver over seven hundred PNG houses, but it's going to

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Speaker 2: be built in phases. So part of the phase that

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Speaker 2: will be built in Ravens Meat only has about forty

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Speaker 2: four houses, and we're told that it's going to be

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Speaker 2: taken from the broader alciaster of a area. You know,

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Speaker 2: beneficiaries will be from the greater Ravens Meat area. So

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Speaker 2: it is up in the air whether or not the

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Speaker 2: over three thousand people that are currently on the waiting

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Speaker 2: list in Ravens Meat whether or not they will actually

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Speaker 2: benefit from this project. And we know that there will

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Speaker 2: be a second phase built in November, but you know,

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Speaker 2: I think it includes areas like Eureka Connaught Urns, which

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Speaker 2: is also the broader al sister of a area. So

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Speaker 2: it's not clear whether this development will benefit people living

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Speaker 2: in overcrowded and dilapidated backyard structures or you know, if

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Speaker 2: it will be for the broader community.

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Speaker 1: I mean a story that ground up has been doggedly

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Speaker 1: covered is a torture case in the Mobray area twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. A man, a barber, had caught on his

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Speaker 1: CCTV camera in the premises where he works, caught Mowbray

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Speaker 1: police actively torturing someone. But that case has been provisionally

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Speaker 1: withdrawn even with the very very stark visual CCTV evidence.

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Speaker 2: You know what, I was a bit, not a bit.

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Speaker 2: I was very disappointed when this outcome happened because you think,

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Speaker 2: you know, when we started covering this, we thought, you know,

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Speaker 2: this is a slam dunk case. Initially, when police went

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Speaker 2: in there to ray. They had no idea that there

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Speaker 2: was CCTV footage. So the second all of those all

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Speaker 2: of that evidence was handed in and you think it's

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Speaker 2: a slam dunk case, but you know, there's multiple postponements

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Speaker 2: and eventually last week the case was withdrawn for multiple reasons.

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Speaker 2: One they couldn't get hold of an interpreter for Juma,

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Speaker 2: who is from Burundi, and because he had been he

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Speaker 2: said he felt so unsafe staying in the Western Cape.

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Speaker 2: He a couple of months after the incident, he moved

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Speaker 2: to the Eastern Cape and police apparently only phoned him

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Speaker 2: a day before the year ring, so by the time

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Speaker 2: the matter had been heard, he had also just arrived

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Speaker 2: at the court. So you know, the three officers involved

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Speaker 2: that are clearly seen on the CCTV footage are now

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Speaker 2: still working at various police stations. We are going to

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Speaker 2: be following up on this point. But you know that

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Speaker 2: there doesn't seem to be any repercussion, and it just

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Speaker 2: seems like there's this numb attitude towards a very desperate

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Speaker 2: situation in our country at the moment.

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Speaker 1: And a great piece but also pictorial essay on the

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Speaker 1: lassue to comic caves. It's a great glimpse into a

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Speaker 1: unique way of life that's that shape by tradition, that's straight,

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Speaker 1: by resilience, but also the limited access to to modern resources.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so this is a fascinating story. So we sent

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Speaker 2: some of our reporters up to Lasutu and they spent

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Speaker 2: time with Nefani, who is the last remaining resident of

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Speaker 2: these caves, and it's it's fascinating. I definitely would encourage

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Speaker 2: people to go and look at the footage because it's

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Speaker 2: absolutely fascinating to see this carved outsandstone structures in the

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Speaker 2: cliffs of Licitu. And you know, we know that they

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Speaker 2: were initially occupied in the early eighteen hundreds for people

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Speaker 2: fleeing the Nefhakani wars and famine, but you know there's

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Speaker 2: also these they saw these markings that there are evidence

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Speaker 2: of you know, early humans and rock paintings of you know,

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Speaker 2: possible sand people that had you know, settled there and

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Speaker 2: moved along. So it's absolutely fascinating. It's currently it's tourist attraction,

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Speaker 2: but Nafani remains the only resident living in this cave

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Speaker 2: structure and it's absolutely fascinating.

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Speaker 1: It's a great pictorial piece and a great essay. Go

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Speaker 1: to ground up dot org. Doan Zerte Barbara October. She's

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Speaker 1: the editor of ground Up. They do excellent public interest journalism,

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Speaker 1: great photographs also, But there are a nonprofit news agency.

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