It's 7:30 p.m. in the South African city of Cape Town. Paramedic Papinki Lebelo wears an expression of deep frustration as he waits in his ambulance outside the Philippi East police station.

South Africa has the fifth highest crime rate in the world ... Sonia and her ambulance colleagues gather at the scene of a minor motorbike crash involving a family in an SUV.

The medical crew and their ambulance from Cape Town's Emergency ... I would have helped that baby." Four of South Africa's top five homicide hotspots last year were in the Cape Flats, according ...

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