Cape Town’s poor ‘neglected’ in South Africa’s only opposition-run province

City workers clean a street in upmarket Constantia in Cape Town's southern suburbs [File: Howard Burditt/Reuters]

Cape Town, South Africa – In the leafy, picturesque southern suburbs of Cape Town, Dee Lackay, 38, is making a new start after leaving Johannesburg for what he feels is a safer and better city.

The ambitious personal trainer used to run a specialised exercise studio in South Africa’s economic capital until the high crime rate and lack of service delivery became too much for him and his wife to handle.