From Gangster to Twitter - Clinton Liederman's Journey

South Africa's Cape Town is one of the world's most violent places. The area of Athlone on the Cape Flats is dominated by the so-called "American Gang," whose ruthless members work with international cartels and control South Africa's drugs trade. Out of this crime ridden world a social media revolution is taking place in which former gang leaders have banded together to use social media to help their community. Its called RLabs.org and this is the story of one of its members, Clinton Liederman (@Clinton316), a drug addicted gangster for nine years and is now a social media entrepreneur.

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• social media entrepreneur
• crime and social media
• Twitter gangsters
• Facebook
• Cape Town and crime
• American Gang
• RLabs
• drugs
• social media
• stopping crime
• Twitter and crime
• Cape Town violence