Like in New York City- just the right lawyers, judges, and other social elites have to personally fall victim to crime before anything changes.
When the poor are victims, no one of importance takes notice.
If the middle class complains, then they are just being paranoid. Or "racists".
Interesting how the BBC author takes a story about a serious violent crime epidemic in South Africa, and still manages to put a warm glow into the reporting. Note the lighthearted "criticism" of Mbeki. Wonder whether the BBC's Iraq articles are written in a similar vein... (no, actually I don't wonder)
South Africa is no more - Johannesburgh is becoming a ghost town and it is soon to devolve into a primitive world again.
Clearly all South Africans should retreat...er...cut and run.
So even the most stable country in Africa, and the only country on that continent that even resembles a regional power, is heading down the toilet. There's a shocker...