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Must suck to be living in South Africa now with no other passports. Luckily I was able to leave in 2000 due to my father having a British passport. Most of my family still lives there but I'm not sure it's worth applying for a South African passport again. I don't think it would be the same South Africa I remember from my youth.
It's hard to say whether or not the whole crime situation is exaggerated or not. Of course practically everyone there now has tall barbed-wire fences around their homes, and the better off even have guards. Hijackings are somewhat frequent to the extent that people are advised not to stop at red traffic lights at night, and some advise against even walking anywhere by yourself in general. My own grandfather was killed in an armed robbery there (by blacks of course), as well as my father being shot at and almost hijacked. The last time I was there some white tourists got robbed, raped, and killed in a public park in the city, haha.
