<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399147" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pretoria</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I look at a city, <br>a city once modern, new <br>and progressive, the cultural centre<br>of a nation<br>but now poverty <br>and mismanagement<br>is taking its toll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where ten years back<br>people could live in its apartments<br>now is a ghetto, <br>with prostitutes on the street, <br>primitive men urinating against buildings<br>and teenagers walking with ghetto-blasters <br>playing music at full volume.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where at traffic lights<br>windows are smashed with bricks<br>and valuables are stolen, <br>parked cars are taken, <br>where cars are hijacked<br>with the barrel of a gun<br>and cars are even stripped<br>at the police grounds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A capital city in a country<br>that has thrown its borders<br>wide open to the rest of Africa<br>and every criminal<br>has headed there<br>and gangsters live in paradise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but in the suburbs <br>people still are making a living<br>in fortresses guarded by dogs<br>and security devices, <br>with panic buttons<br>for the nearest rent a cop</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and people still pray <br>and go to work and play<br>as if crime is the norm<br>and the inadequacy<br>of the new government<br>doesn’t really matter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399147" data-title="Pretoria de Gert Strydom" data-description="I look at a city, a city once modern, new and progressive, the cultural centre of a nation but now poverty and mismanagement is taking its toll. Where ten years back people could live in its apartments now is a ghetto, with prostitutes on the..."></div> </div> </div>

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