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Residents are afraid they’ll lose the small-town feel created by the Craftsman bungalows and Spanish Revival homes that once dotted the streets.

"It certainly has been exploding in Cape Town, particularly. People are lost and disconnected. Everybody's looking for a pill to fix everything, and there simply isn't a pill to fix everything".

It explains why research finds we lose around half of our friends every seven years.

“But at the same time, we’ve lost most of our heavy and medium equipment over the last two years, so we can’t do much to relieve people’s suffering.”

"I lost a load of stuff of my baby sister. I had a picture frame with her thumb print on it with everyone else's," she said.