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The suburb of Ravensmead in Parow, 20 kilometres from the centre of Cape Town, has no airs, graces or pretensions.
Nothing comes for free in Ravensmead, you have to earn everything. It is not a ‘rough’ neighbourhood and remains, mercifully, mostly free from the drug gangs which plague the ‘Cape Flats’ suburbs, but there are no new cars in the driveways of the mostly single storey homes.
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