Cape Times - Gates lock out social integration

Fred Pilot finds another fascinating article, this one from South Africa:

Separate development is officially dead, but a modern incarnation is emerging in the new South Africa; gated communities. Gated communities are the new separate development, separating haves from have-nots, rich from poor, "insiders" from "outsiders". The rich live in self-imposed jails, surrounded by electrified fences, their properties patrolled by killer attack dogs, security guards and surveillance cameras in order to achieve their simulacrum of security. Nobody can deny that those who can afford it have their individual right to protect themselves, their possessions and their families. But on the other hand, we must carefully consider whether continuing separate development, economic bantustans, presents a suitable model for nation-building.
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