NEWS: How South Africans are fighting crime in their hoods - with an app

Cape Town - Three men walk down a quiet Cape Town neighbourhood road carrying a stolen flat-screen TV, seemingly unaware their movements are being scrutinised.



A resident peeping out of the window logs a call to the Western Cape crime channel on a cellphone app and it is not long before another user down the road responds with an updated location.

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