A NEW DAWN FOR ATLANTIS
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Atlantis has a complicated history, which has recently, unfortunately, become synonymous with gangsterism. Atlantis was established during the 1970s by the Apartheid government as an industrial centre and a community for the coloured population of Cape Town under the Group Areas Act. In the mid-1980s, thanks to major tax incentives, there were approximately 50 industrialists in Atlantis employing people drawn from nearly 8 000 households. These industries included large manufacturing companies such as Tedelex. But
