South African township struggles to cope with killing of Anni Dewani | World news | The Observer

South African township struggles to cope with killing of Anni Dewani | World news | The Observer: "Round the back of Table Mountain, far from the Robben Island ferry quay or the fashionable cafés of Cape Town's Long Street, people really know about crime. Langa, Crossroads, Khayelitsha and Gugulethu are the sprawling townships that give South Africa the terrifying statistics everyone has heard of – 50 murders a day, 14,000 car hijackings a year and, somewhat less plausibly, a rape every seven seconds.
Yet in the den of iniquity that Gugulethu is supposed to be, no one can comprehend the cold-blooded killing last weekend of 28-year-old Anni Dewani, a tourist on her honeymoon with no connection to the township.
The Swedish-born engineer was shot dead with three bullets. Her husband Shrien, a 31-year-old British businessman, and their driver survived the late-night hijacking of their Volkswagen Sharan among the low-rise houses and clusters of shacks off the N2 highway."