🇿🇦 South Africa 8h ago · Mary Alson

Pensioners are exiting this suburb as crime and property prices skyrocket

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Pensioners are exiting this suburb as crime and property prices skyrocket
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Cape Town’s property market has been celebrating a price boom.



But the city’s pensioners are an unexpected casualty of these price rises.



However, in one suburb, it’s becoming more expensive and more dangerous.



Pensioners are being forced out of this Cape Town suburb



Mature residents who’ve spent decades in the city can’t afford to live comfortably.



It’s a tale as old as Cape Town’s frenzied property market: developers come in, drive up pr

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