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How necropolitics deepens the crime and inequality crisis in Cape Town

Daily Maverick · · 1340 words · By Raeesah Noor-Mohamed
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“The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.”
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“The housing crisis in Cape Town is out of control. People are being displaced, priced out and removed at rapidly increasing levels.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's second-largest city by population, afte…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — MI Cape Town is a South African professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team that competes in the SA20 tournament. The team is based in Cape Town, and was formed in 2022. They are the 2025 champions o…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The City of Cape Town (Cape Town metropolitan area) like most South African metropolitan areas, uses metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city routes, a layer below national (N) roads and re…
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“The current housing crisis is a consequence of apartheid legacies and years of spatial segregation.”
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“He also uses necropolitics to describe processes behind the creation of what he refers to as death worlds.”
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“The colonisation and genocide of the Palestinian people are used by Mbembe as an example of necropolitics.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Joseph-Achille Mbembe (; born 1957) is a Cameroonian historian and political theorist who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the U…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Necropolitics is a sociopolitical theory of the use of social and political power to dictate how some people may live and how some must die. The deployment of necropolitics creates what Achille Mbembe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necropolitics
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A state of exception (German: Ausnahmezustand) is a concept introduced in the 1920s by the German philosopher, jurist and later Nazi Party member Carl Schmitt, similar to a state of emergency (martial…
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“The power to decide where people can and cannot live is inherently the power to increase people’s chances of life, or to condemn them to death.”
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“Cape Town has been seeing an increase in (white Western) tourists, flocking to experience what Time Out declared as the 'most beautiful city in the world'.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cape Town Stadium (Afrikaans: Kaapstad-stadion; Xhosa: Inkundla yezemidlalo yaseKapa; known since 2021 as the DHL Stadium for sponsorship reasons) is an association football (soccer) and rugby uni…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decre…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Western Cape (Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap [ˈvɛskɑːp]; Xhosa: eNtshona-Kapa; Khoekhoe: Huri!hub) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is geographically the …
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“With the city having one of the highest Airbnb densities in the world, there is a truth behind the joke.”
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“The Western Cape was the only province with 10 police stations in the top 30 murder stations in the country.”
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“Of the 276 gang murders in the third quarter of 2025/26, 257 occurred in the Western Cape.”
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“The persistent spatial segregation and neglect of working-class communities result in the cultivation of an environment where violence and drug abuse thrive.”
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“Some areas in Cape Town have been declared 'red zones', too dangerous for ambulances to access without following strict protocols or, in some cases, a police escort.”
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“Those who have the power to choose to displace locals are, by the very nature of displacement, declaring that they believe those who are displaced are less worthy of life than the wealthy who move into those areas.”
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