Just a ‘regular’ vacation (was not my choice, the wife had this dream of seeing it).
Safe is a relative word.
I stayed in three locations. The first was a vineyard hotel thirty miles east of Cape Town. Private security...limited entry. Everyone (employees included) gave you the impression of safe and hospitable in nature. Food and drink were abundant/reasonable.
Second was a lodge setting in the far NE of the county (maybe an hour south of Zimbabwe). There, you needed to worry more about lions, snakes, etc...than human threats. Again, virtually everyone went way out of the way to be hospitable and openly friendly. Just lots of open landscape and the scenes like the Grand Canyon.
Third was Cape Town city. There...it’s a mixed up feeling. Ultra modern town...built for tourism...has tons of potential for industry and business operations. Massive townships on the edge of town. Significant unemployment. Corrupted government situation for generations. Parts of town, you could walk with zero fear. Other parts of town....less so. Drug scene is escalating...gang violence...shootings...politically active groups on thug-violence (threatening blacks as well as whites). Oddly, I ate extemelly well, and probably spent a third less on dining/drinking than I would in most other vacation spots.
One of the key things I walked away with...virtually no one believes data/statistics that the government hands out. Goes beyond whites or blacks...total fake factual disbelief. Oddly, I came to meet a number of folks who know of Trump....like his style, and will even openly say that they need an honest ‘Trump’ character to arrive and fix the mess. Just so much potential...some much open landscape...so many folks that you could put to work tomorrow, and they can’t grasp that.
The Western Cape is capable on its own of surviving as a nation, and I’d take a guess that fifty-percent of the Africans in the region are anti-ANC.
The Zulus and their leader being very anti-ANC and preferred to ally themselves with the Apartheid government in the 70's and 80's. However, the Zulus are primarily in the eastern part of the country, and I'm not sure where their political sympathies are today.