Approaching Gang Violence on the Cape Flats in Rehana Rossouw’s What Will People Say?

The Cape Flats are a suburb located between the Cape Peninsula and the mountains south-east of Cape Town in South Africa. Once a seabed, this sandy plain on the city’s outskirts is isolated from the CBD (Central Business District) and the formerly white areas by the N2 highway in the north, False Bay in the south, the M5 highway in the west, and Lansdowne Road in the east – an island of danger that looms like a dark shadow over the glittering facades of the Waterfront and the sleek Camps Bay cafés that feature so prominently in tourist guides of the