SLUMTOWN | Derelict East London buildings are safe havens for criminals, squatters

Dilapidated, burnt, half-finished structures are bases for illegal activity in affluent areas of metro

Drug peddlers and addicts, vagrants, prostitutes, house robbers and scrap metal thieves are being provided with safe bases from which to operate in the many dilapidated and abandoned houses scattered throughout Buffalo City...

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