Diepsloot: Child Abuse Plagues ‘Place of Chaos’

A man in faded blue overalls walks across a charred field, his black boots crushing dead leaves. Giant electricity pylons buzz overhead. Plumes of thick black smoke rise skyward in the distance. "It’s the copper cable thieves again; they’re burning the plastic off the cables so they can get the copper," says the man. A cold wind stirs red dust, and flaps the wrinkled cover of a discarded magazine, on which a sun-bleached Kim Kardashian pouts suggestively.  Over the...

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