Trevor Pedro’s ‘Compromised Choices and Freedoms’

AHEAD of the launch of his debut book this weekend, Hanover Park author and youth and community development practitioner, Trevor Pedro, said his body of writing will pull back the curtain on the hidden cost of survival for families on the Cape Flats.

- CHEVON BOOYSEN

People on the Cape Flats should be recognised and treated with dignity, despite their daily struggles, Pedro said

He hopes that his newly published book, Compromised Choices and Freedoms, will bring back a sense of hope beyond the borders of the Hanover Park and Cape Flats communities, which find themselves in the grips of socioeconomic ills.

Pedro said the book “emphasises our agency, however compromised our Choices and Freedoms are, to stand against adversity and thrive’.

Pedro also examines the responsibility of institutions involved in protecting the constitutional and human rights of people on the Cape Flats.