When most visitors arrive in Cape Town , they're handed a familiar list of places to avoid. Areas like Lavender Hill, Mitchell's Plain and Manenberg are often reduced to warnings shorthand for danger in a city of contrasts.
But one content creator is flipping that script.
In a viral clip from her series entitled The Popi Show , the creator sets out with a deliberately provocative plan: go exactly where she's been told not to. Alone, without contacts, and armed with little more than curiosity, she heads into the Cape Flats not to sensationalise crime, but to connect with people.