“There’s guns, there’s drugs, there’s prostitutes, there’s everything here.”
Leaders from some of the world’s major economies will gather in South Africa’s economic heartland, Johannesburg, for the G20 summit, in just under two weeks.
But just a few kilometres from the spruced-up, highly secure venue is a city centre with more than 100 derelict buildings, some taken over by criminal gangs, with others plagued by rubbish and open sewage.
The City of Johannesburg’s deputy director of communications, Nthatisi Modingoane, said the council “will intensify” its operations tackling criminal activity in hijacked buildings and “make sure that we clean the city”.
The Johannesburg police did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment on bribery and intimidation.
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