South Africa: 2: Knife Crime ER | Reggie Yates’ Extreme

Duration: 56'48''

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In 2013 Reggie Yates spent a week at a Cape Town hospital where, on any weekend, the doctors deal with up to 100 stabbings & assaults, with 80 per cent of those admitted under 25.

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