I have been asked in a PM why I am so bitter about SA, without mentioning the posters name i wish to reply publicly.

I am NOT Bitter!
I love the place to bits,my mother and siblings still stay there, my daughter calls herself an African Girl.
But, just because I love SA does not mean I am prepared to excuse the idiocy and incompetence that happens there, nor am I going to allow people to BS about its very real dangers by minimising it.
I dont care wether people go there or not.

But dont go there and think its as safe as whereever you come from.

Client of mine went to CT on Honeymoon last year,they could see the V&A from the hotel, the porter said let me call you a taxi , no thanks was the response,probably the brother in laws taxi service!!

they got 300 yards from the hotel and they were running.
They were lucky, the porter was watching from the hotel and he and two waiters ran too, the shadows ducked.

That would have given my Country a bad name.
If they had done some research they would have listened to the porter's advice.

The two little American missionaries on the South Coast who got raped, did'nt anyone explain that you dont hitchhike in SA?

The little Belgian Girl who arrived at Wits a week, did'nt anyone warn her about going to an open party in Soweto??
The swimming Coach for the Special Olympics in Durban?
Did she and her partner think a Moonlight stroll on the Beachfront was safe? of course they did.
I dont care that it might happen elswhere, I care that it happens too often in my Country and it is minimised and brushed aside along with the too high murder rate and too high rape rate and the inexcusable failure of the Justice to lock them away ,forever!
So my Countrymen all say you just have to be careful, it only happens in the townships, just be vigilant,
People are only as vigilant as they are used to.

Jhbg is the pits, PE and Durban and Cape are safer, but they are not immune.