Well.there's only one way to find out wether its safe to stay in SA, move there.
We've argued this one so much I'm not even going to start, just two small questions if I may:

Unseer, why are you living in such a cheap area of London? Thats the equivalent of living in one of Jhbg's worst low income areas?
Or are you saving money?

Bovinerebel, those 6 million tourists, the SA Tourist board figures said that about 4 million of those came from other parts of Africa, mostly Nigeria if I recall?

As to your comments that criticism of the Govt is racist,
90% of the SA Govt happens to be Black, and they create most of of the grounds for criticism.
Or do you think that Carl Niehaus recently did'nt get criticised because he was white?
And no, I dont want apartheid back, and I do believe that the previous white govt was also corrupt, they just seemed to be better at not destroying everything else in the process.

Go people,one of two things will happen, nothing, or you will wish you had'nt ever heard of the place.