South Africa's Cape Town is one of the world's most violent places and the so-called "American Gang" dominates the drugs trade alongside international drug cartels.
Out of this crime ridden world in Athlone on the Cape Flats a social media revolution is occurring. Former gang leaders and drug dealers have banded together to use social media to help their communities.
Its called RLabs.org and this is the story of one of its members, Clinton Liederman (@Clinton316), a drug addicted gangster for nine years and now a social media entrepreneur with nearly 1,000 Twitter followers.
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