Today I was browsing the iol.co.za site - it shares news from the various regional newspapers. And unfortunately, it's filled with stories like this one. Yesterday, there was an article about a birthday party that turned into a nightmare at a restaurant in Durban. Another told of a man who raped a 12-year old girl and then forced three of her male cousins (all aged below ten years) to rape her as well. Stories like this rip out my heart, they fill me with sadness and anger and when my family ask when I'm moving back to South Africa - the land of crime - I don't know how to tell them nicely that they're out of their minds.
I'm not moving back. And it would take a major event for me to go back to visit.
It's sad. South Africa is such a beautiful country. But when crime tarnishes that, it's difficult to return to that once-beautiful reputation.
Crime is spinning out of control down there. The upsetting part is not that it's happening, but rather that people are becoming used to it, they just live with it. No-one should have to do that.
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