Longmarket

Reborn from Ashes
Once one of the most run-down and crime-ridden districts, where even the police dared not enter, Longmarket has been dragged kicking and screaming into a new Azania after years of concentrated efforts by the government in cooperation with Mujaji and, later, DeBeers Omnitech and Wyk-Krueger Security.

Much of the district was reduced to rubble and then rebuilt, slick new chrome facades taking the place of old concrete and plascrete highrises, bullet-riddled walls torn down to make way for glass panes, all to create the image of a comfortable, middle class haven in the Bowl, protected by top security firms and.

Sadly, the reality is far less elegant - the few parts rebuilt to meet higher standards are home to corporate managers an workers lower in the food chain, and a few enclaves even qualify as "nice", but much of the district consists of rebuilt high-rises and refurbished blocks of flats, their pretty exteriors hiding sub-standard insides.

Beneath the district, a system of subterranean living spaces connected by underground metrorail to workplaces and other regions of the Cape Town area.

Geography
The district is nestled between the Table Mountain, much of it built in the mountain's foothills, and the Atlantic Ocean. A section of wall seperates it from the Southern district, a few check-point laden roads leading out. In the North, it borders the Buitenkant district.

Security Rating
A: Camps Bay

B: Geneva, Victoria Rd.

C: Bakoven