Who do you trust?
I have been busy with the school programs and painting workshops in Khayelitsha as well as starting the mural project in Woodstock. On Wednesday we did a bicycle trip to the Lion's head mountain, 600 meters high to see the beautiful sunset of Cape Tow. In Cape Town there is a strong fear towards townships and poorer neighbourhoods which are struggling with gang violence. People I met in Stellenbosch as well as residents here in Woodstock and Salt River would never enter to these neighbourhoods with thrilling reputations. There is a difference between the residents and non-residents of these neighbourhoods: the people living in these areas don't have so strong reactions of their living areas as well a the crime and fear is not so dominant discourse in everyday discussion. It seems that the fear of crime (so now we are not talking about the crime itself) is grasping stronger rather to the people who have a choice not to live in these areas than to the residents of ...