Special Report Transcript Episode 26, Section 5, Time 26:34

Poet Wallace Seroti called it the ‘dark city.’ Alexandra lies just 13 kilometres from the heart of the city of gold. One of South Africa’s oldest townships it is also one of the most crowded, most impoverished and most violent. But there’s a buzz to this community, a dynamic atmosphere that transcends the squalor. This spirit presently fires up a struggle to improve the quality of life. In the past, it fuelled passionate and organised resistance. When the Truth Commission went to the township this week they heard some of the dark tales of the dark city.