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Chapter 3249 Slums

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    The scale and area of ??the wine estate were somewhat unexpected by Lin Rui and others. Coupled with the increasing security personnel, there are various signs that the Grand Duke of the Secret Society should arrive within a week or at least a few days.

    After Lin Rui and Zhao Jianfei discussed it, they finally chose to take a closer look.  Although it is impossible for them to enter the roads and buildings inside the wine estate, they can also forcibly memorize them through drawings.  Lin Rui and Zhao Jianfei both believed that before the Grand Duke of the Secret Society arrived, it was best for them to conduct an on-the-spot reconnaissance, at least to understand the situation outside the manor.

    Zhao Jianfei took them to that area. They deliberately dressed casually and pretended to be tourists. They were led by several local tour guides, holding cameras and other tools in their hands.

    "This place is a wealthy area of ??Cape Town. Racial discrimination has always been a very important issue in the history of the world, especially in South Africa. There is a picturesque small valley 15 kilometers south of Cape Town.  At the other end is one of Cape Town's busiest ports, as well as many wealthy areas, hotels and rural areas.

    There is a poor community between the rich areas. You can see the densely packed iron roofs there. The temperature is often as high as 30 or 40 degrees. The temperature in the room under the iron roof is almost suffocating.  In the wealthy area separated by woods on one side, villas with swimming pools can be seen everywhere.  "Zhao Jianfei whispered. "Many communities have clearly defined the separation of rich and poor from the beginning of their design. Usually, there are two completely different worlds separated by a network or a tree.  The rich here are usually white, the poor there are usually black.  "

    Standing here, Lin Rui can clearly see the gap between the rich and the poor and the fragmentation of the environment. In some places, there is only a wall or road between luxury houses and slums.  It seems that the poor are only one step away from high-end residential areas. However, in reality, this may be a gap between the rich and the poor that cannot be bridged for generations.  Twenty-three years after the end of apartheid, these invisible walls remain strong.

    At the foot of the mountain, there is a small area of ??slightly formal permanent structure housing built by the South African government.  Lin Rui pointed there and said, "Is that also a slum area?"

    The tour guide nodded, "Yes, these houses are mainly provided to black people who were born before 1994 and were persecuted by eviction and apartheid. However, due to the limited number of houses built by the government and the increase in the number of new-born people in the slums in recent years,  With the increasing population and the continuous influx of migrants, most residents of slums still live in informal shanties.

    Some of the informal buildings in the slums are transformed from shipping containers, and some are simply built with some wooden boards or iron sheets, covered with some plastic sheets on the roof, and pressed with discarded tires or stones, which can be regarded as a place to live.  Informal buildings are densely built from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, forming a continuous slum structure.

    The spatial deprivation that has been formed during the apartheid period has prevented black people in slums from enjoying fair public resources such as housing, employment, education, judicial rights, etc., and thus lacked the ability to participate in urban social reproduction. Intensified poverty has reduced black people in slums to labor at the bottom of society.  origin of.

    ??Every year from November to the next year, it is mainly men, and a small number of middle-aged and elderly women who mainly rely on fishing or working in fishing companies to make a living.  In winter, except for a small number of people who work as gardeners for white people, it is difficult for most black men to find jobs.  Black women mainly work as nannies in white areas, providing domestic services to the wealthy, such as cooking, cleaning rooms, taking care of children, walking dogs, etc.

    Since the work of these lower-class people is seasonal and quite unstable, more than 50% of black male youths are jobless or unemployed. They can only rely on government relief funds to make ends meet, or even wander on the streets and rely on begging to make ends meet.  Living hand to mouth.  Some of these unemployed people join local gangs and make a living by stealing and robbing, or secretly fishing for abalone in the nearby Table Mountain Marine Reserve.  "

    "Is it bad there?" Crazy Horse asked.

    "Of course it cannot be compared with the wealthy areas here. In the slums, most of these shacks do not have running water, sewers, lighting and electricity facilities, and they also lack public health facilities such as toilets and garbage disposal. Here, safety and privacy are almost non-existent.  Crime problems are rampant, and problems such as fires and forced evictions are also common.

    Because this town is located on a peninsula that extends from Cape Town to the depths of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and is close to the trade wind belt, strong winds prevail all year round. It was once named "Storm Cape" by Western colonists.  Strong winds have made Bay Town a disaster-stricken area for fires. Due to the lack of municipal facilities, dozens of fires, large and small, occur in the slums every year.  After a fire, victims are often everywhere, wailing.

    In addition, the simple housing structures in slums are often difficult to withstand storms.  When the weather is bad, many black people choose to go to the mountainside church.She took shelter in the village, waited for the wind and rain to subside, and then returned home to repair the shanty that was damaged by the wind and rain.  Because of perennial poverty, frequent unemployment and harsh natural environment, these lower-class blacks with a common ethnic background have formed a social network of mutual support.

    Although the living environment is extremely harsh, thanks to the unique spirit of compassion and mutual help of the black nation, when members of the community are unemployed or encounter livelihood problems, they can generally get help from their relatives and friends to temporarily tide over the difficulties.  The era of apartheid is over and things will get better.  "The black tour guide replied.

    However, Lin Rui could see the helplessness in the eyes of this black tour guide.  As the population and scale of urban slums increase, and in the absence of necessary social management and public services, the limited social capital and spatial resources of slums cannot effectively avoid and restrict social problems such as crime and fires.  in a state of disorder and out of control.

    "The winery is ahead. We can't go any further. It's private property." The black tour guide shook his head.  "There are bodyguards there and if you come in without permission, they will probably shoot you."

    Lin Rui nodded, "No problem, we'll stop here. But I want to ask you something else." As he spoke, he gave the black tour guide a few bills.

    "I'm happy to oblige. What do you want to know, sir?" the black tour guide nodded.

    "That place, yes, is what I just said, the building in the slum area. Help me ask if anyone is willing to rent it out? A few of us plan to rent it there for a few months." Lin Rui nodded.

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