"To live with the statistics is not easy. A serious crime is committed every 17 seconds in South Africa and Johannesburg is the epicentre of the crisis.
"The reality behind the statistics means that I live behind a high brick wall, topped with an electric fence.
"I cannot see the street outside: I cannot see the horizon. My house is alarmed day and night: so is my garage. I pull in and out of it fast: most armed carjackings take place in people's own driveways.
"They are often serious in the extreme: they are fatal. I've worked across this continent for years on the basis that I'm happy to call an aggressive man with a gun "Sir" and to give him what he wants.
So far I have survived the ill-disciplined rebel fighters, militiamen and soldiers. But in South Africa it is different - the armed men don't always give you the chance to hand the car over. They just shoot.
"Of course, sometimes they don't shoot. But it is the fear of what may happen which is paralysing, which restricts your life, which is a daily exhausting stress."
Go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/05/99/south_africa_elections/353596.stm
Are there any African Americans speaking out about South African crime like they did with South African apartheid?
Where is the solidarity that we used to have with that country?
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