Crime in Cape Town

[Anne-Marie]

Hi,

I'm moving to Cape Town this weekend. I'm really excited about the whole thing but one of my colleagues here in London is a Capetonian and has really managed to worry me.

I'm moving to an apartment into the city centre for the next three months, and he's mentioned to me the city centre is very unsafe and I need to be extremely careful and virtually barricade myself in at night. As a woman on my own I'm beginning to wonder if I've made a serious mistake. Is the city centre that bad? And am I losing my freedom moving to a big crime ridden city?

Anyway, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

[Stravinsky]

Originally Posted by Anne-Marie

Hi,

I'm moving to Cape Town this weekend. I'm really excited about the whole thing but one of my colleagues here in London is a Capetonian and has really managed to worry me.

I'm moving to an apartment into the city centre for the next three months, and he's mentioned to me the city centre is very unsafe and I need to be extremely careful and virtually barricade myself in at night. As a woman on my own I'm beginning to wonder if I've made a serious mistake. Is the city centre that bad? And am I losing my freedom moving to a big crime ridden city?

Anyway, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

I asked the same sort of question on another thread but no one answered. the reason I asked is because on other forums I have seen people warning of high crime rates, and I wondered if it was just a group of embittered ex pats moaning.

I hope you get some guidance ... although if you google crime in South Africa you can find a lot
BBC News | TALKING POINT | Have you experienced crime in South Africa?

[synthia]

There are several threads here about crime in South African and in Capetown. What I've noticed is that people say it's not bad, but they follow up with caveats about going out at night. Every time I read that I wonder if the people posting really think that a place where going out at night is dangerous is the norm in the rest of the world.

[RIKKA]

We are moving to CT in January. I have been to CT 4 times in the last year, and i never felt the CBD dangerious. I am taking my wife and daugher next week to go house shopping and look at schools. I have found expat south africans very down on their country. Not sure why. If I may be so bold where did/are you moving in CT.