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READER LETTER | Westbury choking in murders

Sowetan · 28 August 2026 at 11:23

READER LETTER | Westbury choking in murders

We are watching children under the age of 18 being drawn into the machinery of gang violence and being used to carry out shootings and other crimes.

This cannot be normal.

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