After dark, they would take to the streets of one of Cape Town's most dangerous communities, often armed with only determination to keep criminals at bay.
But many of the once active patrollers who took it upon themselves to try and rid the streets of Marikana, in Philippi East, of the dangers plaguing the badly lit shackland, have gone into hiding after a shooting at a tavern thought to have been targeting them.
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