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>> back on the cape flats, leon meyer admits breaking with the past is easier said than done. >> gangsill never go away. i will be dead someday and there will always begins to. the way they put us all together. >> are you still considering yourself a gangster? >> i am a gangsterer. i'm almagro. i will stay a gangster. that is the only way out. >> in the meantime, desiree simon is heading home with dinner. she says she does not judge others. her priority is making sure our children don't go to bed hungry. brent: this is dw news. after a short break, i will be back t to take you t through the daday. i will be e right back. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] twenty four en france twenty four .com. george fluids body arrives in texas well hundreds of people participated inin a vigigil for him in the cy of houston. this has been a subset derek chauvin who killed floyd is in court via teleconference for the first time. the menu and michael coles on the french got into a separate check in. th

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people were predicting a catastrophe in places like the cape flats. has it happened?his stage would it happen? >> even our best models weren't able to predict what we're seeing now. we definitely have a lower peak than what we expected but it looks like it will go on for longer. >> reporter: so this is a marathon? >> this is a marathon and i think people need to get a reality check and accept that this is here and that it's not going to go away any time soon. we've used the time well and we're always going to question ourselves, did we use it enough? did we do enough with the time that we were given during lockdown, during when the epidemic slowed and every death is heavy on health care workers. >> there are far fewer resources here to battle this virus, but they hope this can be replicated across south africa and across the rest of the continent, boris. the rest of the few weeks will be absolutely key as the cases rise dramatically just here in south africa and possibly in some other countries in the continents. >> david mckenzie, thank you so much. >>> at any moment