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CAPE TOWN, Jan 22 ― Three dachshunds lay claim to a big bed, while an agitated mongrel yaps constantly and a miniature schnauzer appears disgruntled despite soothing Bob Marley tunes playing over the stereo. It’s just another morning at SuperWoof, a luxury dog hotel in South Africa’s city of...

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CAPE TOWN, Jan 22 ― Three dachshunds lay claim to a big bed, while an agitated mongrel yaps constantly and a miniature schnauzer appears disgruntled despite soothing Bob Marley tunes playing over the stereo.

Opposite the dog hotel is a night shelter for Cape Town’s many homeless ― a pervasive legacy of apartheid. And a short distance down the road, a makeshift tented camp has mushroomed on the curb. One suite has a tongue-in-cheek name: “K9 Nkandla” ― a nod to ex-president Jacob Zuma’s massive rural homestead, which the scandal-plagued ex-leader notoriously upgraded using millions of dollars in public funds. Dogs have been a divisive topic in South Africa.

Tilana Kruger, a 35-year-old property broker, recently moved to Cape Town from Johannesburg and regularly drops off her beagle at AtFrits. “He can’t wait, he literally jumps out the car,” she toldWhether luxury dog hotels should exist in a country with such high levels of poverty and inequality remains a moot point. A stay in the most expensive of AtFrits’ rooms costs 535 rand a day.

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