What are Grahamstown’s most pressing crime problems? How do residents feel about them? And how are these crime-related issues dividing our community? A group of 120 student journalists from Rhodes University, assigned to ten clusters of neighbourhoods around town, took to the streets to converse with local residents, hold neighbourhood meetings to grapple with the issues, and produce various media that take an alternative view on crime in Grahamstown.

Read more about the project, or select a location on the map below (or click a group's banner) to see what the students discovered about crime in Grahamstown.

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