Hi Moshiecat,I obviously did'nt make myself clear.
there is a reason I dont live in Dublin,Limerick,Glasgow,Belfast Birmingham etc but choose to live in a small place, in the country, in exactly the same way as people who live in Port Elizabeth,Cape, A live with less crime than say Cape town and especially Jhbg,Pretoria,Midrand.
Good things about SA, plenty, the weather, the scenery, the people, lower cost of some foodstuffs, and if you read through my posts here and on other forums,
You hoped that things would change by 2010, historically, ALL SA Governments in SA only changed because of international exposure and pressure.
Ditto the ANC will only do something about the Crime, greed and Corruption when it becomes embarrassing not to.
Had Mbali posted that she led the lifestyle in PE or some small community such as Grahamstown or even Cape Town, I would not have commented.
but the moment someone starts diminishing what is a real danger where I DO have knowledge of,and I am in daily contact,telephone and email with my staff as well as family and friends, so in some ways, I am probably better informed then most of the people i know in SA rgarding crime.
I can assure you your ethnicity would have come into play if you were a SA applying, nonetheless,its moot,they do have a small allocation for International Students and you may well be lucky there.