I lived in SA throughout the 90s and it is a beautiful and mainly friendly place.
HOWEVER
It is also the most dangerous place you will ever experience outside a warzone……..
I was carjacked at a petrol station once and forced to drive my car at knife point by 2 meths addicts, into the bush where I was stabbed 10 times and was a whisker away from dying………
Violent crime affected everyone I knew over their, irrespective of colour or creed.
When you get mugged or Carjacked the general rule of thumb is shoot everyone in the car, men, women and children first then rob the car and whatever else can be had.
The robbers don’t ask questions, they simply walk up to your car at a traffic light or a junction or as you are getting in or out of your car and shoot you dead….rob you…end of……Literally.
This is what happened to a friend of mine……a Scottish guy Andy……His wife was taking his little girl to the nursery before she went to work at 9 am on a lovely sunny morning….she pulled up at a traffic light behind a minibus type vehicle….then another minibus pulled up behind her blocking her in. Then the guy driving the minibus in front jumped out, walked up to her car and shot her dead through the head through the side window then threw her body onto the road. The 3 year old child Angela with lovely blonde curly hair was booted through the passenger side window, breaking the glass with her body out onto the road. She suffered terrible brain damage and is now a virtual cabbage…….This horrific incident made 6 lines in the crime section of the local newspaper……Crimes like this are such a common occurrence that people have become desensitized…………
They tell you on the news or other programs covering World cup issues that if you don’t resist and you don’t carry much money and only carry a cheap mobile phone with you then you will be ok ????
…………………………….two veg…………………………….You wont get the chance to not resist….or give them what little money you have …..or the cheap mobile………..you will be dead.
I went to a U2 concert in Joburg in 98… March the 17th I think? Human rights day…..at the First National Stadium…..It was a huge event……I was with 3 other friends….After the concert we where walking around looking for our car as we where not sure where we had left it…….big fkin mistake…. We ended up in the wrong area …Hillsbrow…and where shot at by these friend with an AK 47 from half way up some high rise flats…..bullets just missed us…..we had to hide behind a wall till fkin daylight before we could get away…..
Also this 40000 strong team of extra security people that are supposed to look after the supporters are a joke……they are as corrupt as the rest of them……and given half a chance they will rob as well…
In saying all that …..i’m actually going to the world cup…..I have lots of friends out there who will put me up and I know where its safe to be and where its not…….but to your Jo average supporter who doesn’t know the score……..dead meat.
Think i’ll stay at home in Platt Bridge thanks…..then again.
