I was there 20 years ago. Many houses had signs that said ‘XYZ SECURITY COMPANY - ARMED RESPONSE’
Has only gotten worse.
Exactly! I’ve been there twice...once in the early 1980s and more recently about 10 years ago. Both times I stayed in what ares still considered to be an affluent suburbs of Johannesburg: Rosebank and Sandton. I don’t remember seeing signs during my first visit like the ones you mentioned but I saw them everywhere 10 years ago. High walls...gates...barbed wire.
The Jodie Foster “Panic Room” movie was released in 2002, a quarter centaury ago. It’s not set in South Africa but it might as well be.
Oh I saw that 40 years ago when I first drove through Beverly Hills and other high end neighbourhoods in LA.