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Grandmothers combat looting, crime in SA

Grandmothers combat looting, crime in SA

KIM HARRISBERG AS looters ran through the streets of Johannesburg, South African grandmother Evelyne turned off her lights, stood by her window and carefully lifted her curtain, surveying the chaos as gunshots and screams filled the night air. The 72-year-old was guarding her property, but she was also gathering information to share with her neighbourhood watch team, made up of a few male patrollers and about a dozen grandmothers in the inner city's Bertrams neighbourhood. "I was scared to go outside, but I heard that there were gunshots coming from a nearby shop and groups of men running through the…
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