As soccer stars and fans converge in South Africa for the World Cup, Christopher Werth travels into the Cape Town slums to investigate reports that people are being displaced to make way for the games. Werth’s reporting was supported in part by a grant from CIR’s Henry Demarest Lloyd Investigative Fund.

+ Watch part two of this series: South Africa’s Shadows: A Journey into the “Bad Buildings” of Johannesburg
+ Read Christopher Werth’s article in Newsweek: Kicked Out for the Cup?
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