With a population of nearly six million, Cape Town is the second city of South Africa. Many of the richest people in the country have ocean villas there. But there is a dark side to this breathtakingly beautiful city. Three thousand people a year are murdered in Cape Town, making it the most dangerous city in Africa.
You need to take the statistics and put it into context else you are spreading fake news. You need to look at WHO (which demographic) the statistics reflect. The statistics show that the vast majority of these deaths and casualties are young men aged 14-30 years old that live in townships where gangsterism is rife. These casualties are due to gang violence between other gang members in the bid for territory and resources. These are poverty stricken township communities where resources and access to opportunities and social mobilisation are severely lacking. Unless you are a gangster or are living in those communities you are not in danger of losing your life. I used to work in the most dangerous gang-ridden communities for years in Cape Town, so I know first hand of what I'm talking about. The reality is that these gangs are formed out of the need for survival and there is a whole story there to unpack that is untold. It is heartbreaking. Please do your homework properly before painting a picture that portrays the image that the city is dangerous. The truth is that there are poverty stricken communities in the city that are dangerous just like everywhere else in the world.
This is fake news. You need to look at the statistics properly to draw accurate conclusions. The statistics show that the vast majority of the deaths and casualties are among young men aged 14-30 years old in poverty striken township communities. Most of these deaths are gang related and are as a result of skirmishes for territory and resources. A lot of the young men recruited into these gangs are forced into it while they are children. That means their decision to be part of these gangs are sorely based on survival ironically. If they decide to leave they are killed. There is a whole story about this that is untold. I have worked in the most dangerous communities in Cape Town for years, so I know first hand of what I am taking about. Please do your homework properly before you start giving people the false perception that their lives are imminently in danger if they visit or live in Cape Town. Cape has impoverished dangerous communities just like everywhere else in the world.
Hmm .. the violence is centred sadly in the Cape Flats where most people would never go. It’s desperately sad for the folk who live there but it’s long been gangland. Elsewhere, life is amazing, the city, suburbs and surrounds .. and the people .. are beautiful. It’s a very one sided report.
@@colinj5099 You literally have one of the leaders of the Dixie Boys with her talking behind her and supporting her, she is then seen behind the man that's gloating about the 15 year old committing his first homicide. These two scenes are filmed at the same location right after each other with the same people. The fact you try to gaslight us into believing we are wrong by just claiming racism is a huge reason why South Africa is the way it is now
@@marw9541 right, what would I do without your knowledge of the cape Flats. I'll be so scared next time walking my brother's dog on a 5km loop after sunset, talking to residents and itinerant workers. I am not saying this doesn't exist, but you would seriously struggle to stumble upon it. There are very dangerous areas, much like in South America too (or even worse there), but what would make you go out of your way to be there?
I recently stayed in Camps Bay in Cape Town and have to say I have never seen a more beautiful and affluent neighbourhood anywhere in the World, million dollar beach front mansions, supercars everywhere and beautiful beaches. Watching this video its difficult to even believe how different life in the flats are compared to the more affluent parts
Didn’t you see the squatter camps opposite the millionaire mansions? I mean in some parts the millionaires are separated by just one road. Or how you have canal walk and khayelitsa , it’s unbelievable
Beautiful but all houses/ mansions have electric fence and security car hired in the neighbourhood. Also it is hard to miss the homeless the slum near by and on the way to the airport 😢
we fled south africa 6 years ago and it was the best thing we could do for our small kids. so grateful to our new country and hoping our kids will never experience the level of violence we grew up in.
It’s income inequality powered by racism in all these cases its people who have been intentionally marginalized the Irish gangs the Italian mob the Mexican cartels
@@Hippohappytt Why are much poorer countries in Africa less violent, then? EDIT: Nobody is saying it is for fun. We are saying poverty is not the reason.
My friend's husband was an Obstetrician, and he was on his way to a delivery. He stopped at a red light. He was shot dead. It was 7 am in the morning. She migrated to Australia with her children.
Well done to St. Mandela and his corrupt cronies! Regrettably, for South Africa, you are reaping what you have sowed; 30 years of black government and this is its legacy!!!
@@drizzlybear350 jdre1976 is right! I lived in California for thirty years, and unfortunately the violence is so similar to Cape Town. So glad I left!
@@buckethead420 excuses, as usual. Poverty doesn't have to equal this level of crime, especially since, as has been noted, there are much poorer nations per capita than SA. Pathetic.
South Africa is more-or-less a failed state now. The Governments have had massive income at their disposal for decades since Apartheid ended. They're no longer at war with all their neighbours, they have wonderful land and all kinds of mineral resources. The place ought to be booming. There should have been affordable housing projects, schools and new hospitals and clinics sprouting up everywhere. This would have led to growth and jobs and hope. Alternatively, you can build mansions for all your supporters, buy them BMW cars and set up fake businesses to launder the Government money into personal bank accounts. They have now a long established political class which is an organised Kleptocracy. It doesnt matter who you vote for, or what they promised - They WILL steal all the money as first order of business. Its a heartbreaker. I remember the hope everyone had when Mandela was released from jail. But they held him 20 years too long. His wife had become a political party on her own and out of control. And he was released as a lost old man surrounded by younger and greedier people who'd used the ANC as a ladder to personal wealth. I personally used to think that 'white flight' was about racism - white people refusing to accept one person, one vote. Now 20 years later, you realise that these were ordinary people, plumbers, engineers, mechanics and their families who couldnt survive the lawlessness and crime going on. Not rich enough to have teams of armed guards and so on - what kind of choice did they have?
You have no idea what a failed state is if you think SA is a failed state. It still functions even with all its corruption. No one is saying it’s good but to jump to call it a failed state is ridiculous. Visit Somalia just once and you’ll understand what a real failed state is and how it “operates”.
@@modernmelbourneman 'Failed State' is a relative term. What I said was that S.A. was more-or-less a failed state. Its like a sugar lump placed on a saucer full of water. It retains its form for a good long while even though it is dissolving inexorably. Its like that with countries too. Somalia was on its way to failed statehood during the time of Siad Barre -after his coup of 1969 led to the destruction of state institutions and kleptocracy. In Lebanon, also a more or less failed state, the crunch came during the civil war in the 1970's and Israeli invasion. Both of these sugar lumps have taken decades to finally collapse into chaos and one has dissolved more than the other - but the process has been the same. South Africa isnt quite there yet. But all the failures and bad governance/corruption is alive and well. And once this process starts, it seems theres no way back.
As a tourist , my impression of Cape Town is that is a city of extreme contrasts , the city has lots of upmarket shopping centres , high quality hotels and beautiful homes and some high quality suburbs . I have walked around the streets in the inner city late at night without any problems . The majority of problems that occur in Cape Town occur in areas well away from the city centre where tourists don't usually travel to . Those who don't like extreme hot weather , Cape Town is ideal as the weather there is very moderate . One of the main problems with South Africa is the electricity supply because each day the electricity is turned off in all areas for a certain amount of hours per day or night which is not a good safety procedure and it is predicted that it will take many years before the electricity supply will get back to normal .
Yes send Nayeeb Bukele there, he transformed El Savador from being the most dangerous country with the highest homicide rate to the second safest country in the American continent
My heart goes out to the lady who lost her son Kyle. 21 years old. Our daughter was 24, 20 days ago. It's not right, not fair. And I hope whoever did this, suffers the worst karma can throw at them ! No parent or family should have this to carry !!! Such a good, beautiful young man. It's not right. Hopefully, a group of Dads will band together and take Cape Town back ! ❤ 🙏
I used to live there. Thank God I don't live in that sh*t hole anymore. Safety is a dream that is real for me while living abroad. I'm so happy that I left South Africa. Never once do I regret my decision. Well done South African government (ANC). You're really a shining example of what no one wants.
@@privard89 I’m white, I lived on the flats (Parkwood) for almost 15 years and am surprised that I actually made it out alive. I live in China now. Super safe - It took me years to adjust to feeling safe and get out for the mindset that I constantly need to look over my shoulder. Did I “run away”? Absolutely, took the first chance I got to run to something better. My decision to leave really has noting to do with nationalism or the lack of it. I just need a few criteria to be met for my life: safety, income, stability.
@@pingpongdonkeykongkong well done for getting out. I loved South Africa for a lot of reasons but left in 2001 for the UK and I am glad I did. I do not even want to think of what could have happened if I had stayed, also not feeling free or doing things I enjoy because of the safety issue always present. It is a shame what has happened in SA, we must think of ourselves and our families safety which is very difficult in that kind of environment. I really don't know what the answer is for SA.
@@justanotherchick2701 well, i guess its safer however nowhere is really safe as crime can happen anywhere. I’ve been mugged in the city center and got away from an attempted second mugging. Bad luck of the draw for some I guess 😅 There are some truly spectacularly beautiful place in Cape Town and I do miss the scenery from time to time, so I go to visit now and then.
11 years ago, I left South Africa and to live in peace for so long is just mind-blowing. I never care anymore when I hear sounds at night, I never constantly scan my surroundings, and I I never practice how I'm going to react to violent situations all the time.
@@len2son I understand I’ve grew up and lived in Dubai for 20+years. I think most of them are not there because of citizenship , but more because of safety and business opportunities.
I live and work in poland and two of my colleagues are from SA (one of them is from Cape Town). They were both in their mid 40s when they came (independently) to poland and i wondered why on earth would the two mature men pack their bags, wives and kids and travel across the globe to settle in a country they most likely knew very little (if anything) about. They told me about the economic situation and mentioned that SA isn't a safe place but I didn't ask too many questions as i felt it was kinda rude. Well this video casts a little light on what they've told me
SA is very dangerous, even for African standards. My family is from Zambia but some live in SA for work. They have zero stories of violent crime in Zambia but 10s to 100s from SA, despite only living their for 2-3 years
I lived in South Africa for 30 years (1990 to 2020), but in Johannesburg's suburbs. We had a 6 foot wall, electric fencing, neibourhood patrols, closed off area with a singe road in and out. The police is as useless as depicted. I had my car broken into and stuff stolen from it at a mall. Obviously, nothing further happened.Losses were at around R12.500 (around EUR 1000 at the time). The criminals rule the streets as shown in this documentary.
would you risk your life to protect people like you when the salary officers get still makes them poor. if you can afford to live in a gated community you also can pay them a living wage
@@liamhawkins4062 I'm now in Poland. I left SA on a Polish passport due to my roots. I maintained the spoken version of the language, so for me it was fairly OK/
@@gregwochlik9233am so glad you are in safe place now. South Africa without white people would have been a little burundi slowly. Police are weak. Soon will be like Haiti. It's sad. I heard a lot of horrible stories over there.
I think South Africa needs to take note of what the Salvadoran government are doing. After passing legislation that suspends the right of association and legal counsel and increased the time spent in detention without charge. This has resulted in nearly 80,000 dangerous gang members being taken off the street. Turning El Salvador from the murder capital of the world to one of the safest in Central America.
detention meaning prison? if so it wouldn’t make much difference majority gangsters feel more safer and empowered in prison, and the prisons are overcrowded🤷🏽♂️
@@wayrin5240they built a new prison, and none of the gang members are coming out, being a gang member = life sentence in said prison where they sleep on cold metal and eat prison food, and have cold showers they’re not enjoying themselves
Yep. That's why I moved to the UK. Been here 19 years now and I've NEVER had a problem with crime. Come to think of it, I can't think of a single instance, NOT ONCE, anybody has ever asked me for money! Not once in 19 years!
“Who can afford to run will run But what about those who can’t They will have to stay Opportunity (is)a scarce, scarce commodity In these times I say…..” ‘Buju Banton - Murderer’
Yep, my brother is an eye surgeon, he packed up his family and left to Australia. He also said he didn't want his kids potentially dying of AIDS in South Africa. Very sad.
@@MrRezilloi am from colombia, and we did the same thing sadly, we chose the worst president ever, an ex criminal who was member of a drug cartel called, gustavo petro
Everything is always blamed on apartheid..Cape town was a very safe clean first world city until it was handed over to them..that’s when the crime shot up..Stop blaming apartheid..for once have the courage to tell it like it really is.
@@janesmith1008after it was handed over it became hell lmao my grandfather is South African (black) lived through apartheid he moved out of SA after apartheid since it became significantly more dangerous not saying apartheid was a good thing but clearly the handing over process wasn’t done right or good at all
@@Snowforest60 and how does that make op's original comment ok? You're only part black but yet you are standing up and defending op's comment who sounds like an Afrikaan
Not surprising. The racial inequality is beyond insane. Whites live in nice almost American like neighborhoods while blacks live in slums with little good job opportunities. The black government after decolonization wasn’t prepared to lead and was ineffective.
There's my hometown! This is normal for Cape Town, not exaggerated. Even in a 'good' middle-class suburb far from the townships, I've known six people who were killed.
@@aroukapenn Since they built the CECOT prison and they signed the legislation that came with it. Homicide rates dropped immensly and are almost non existent at this point. You should look up CECOT El Salvador
You do understand the people who live in South Africa now were living naked in the dirt and eating each other less than a century ago, right? At least the South Americans built cities before the Spanish invasion. They had a written language, stacked stones and had a calendar and sense of time. Africans had none of that.
i live in the uk now but i lived round the corner from this place...Glen Cairn Heights, as a kid i would go down and collect the empty shell casings. Brought back good memories
I thank God and my parents every day for bringing us to America in 1970. When we got here we couldn't fathom houses without bars on the windows or walls around the property. Now I live without locked doors, always open windows and an unlocked car. I used to work in the adjoining city every day and the crime there doesn't affect the average person. Surely no one's cars are getting carjacked. I know not all of America is like this, but most of it still is. I don't live in fear. Europe is learning, real quick, what bringing a lot of Africans into a country can do.
I felt the same safety when i stayed there, until one day a friend was shocked and asked me "You haven't been robbed yet?!?!" . then i proceeded to get robbed atleast 1 or twice a year
And with all these in South Africa's most famous city, Cape Town, South Africans go about saying that Nigerians and other African immigrants are responsible for the drugs and violence in their nation. How?
If you do not live in the townships you will see a beautiful City. My wife and I lived in CT for a year and did not feel unsafe. OK we had security and Electric fences.....40 million South Africans 7 Million white. So sad what has evolved.
@@isaacblake4201 Someone I know was kidnapped with her father and they demanded a ransom from her husband. Luckily the husband brought them the money and they were released.
@@MAZ440 sorry for the late reply that shit is really fucking crazy and I was just looking at Cape Town real estate 🏡 it’s looks so cozy and peaceful is South Africa like that in general it seems very dangerous
So this is the most dangerous place on Earth and Iceland is the safest place on Earth Gee..I wonder why...what ever could be the reason behind both those truths?
I was born in South Africa and I loved growing up there but I left because of the perpetual danger I live in Greece now where I have never felt a moment of insecurity
They are criticising because they have been paid to do so by the Chinese or Russians on behalf of Iran. The government is rotten to the core endemically corrupt.
South Africa, Brazil, and California. 3 of the most beautiful places on earth yet are some of the most dangerous places. So sad 😞 I pray for peace on earth 🙏🏼
I was in Rwanda in 1994.. i volunteered to assist with UN . The smell of decay of a human body has never left my nose. Looking at this, shame such an amazing country is being exploited by other countries, and the poor are dirt poor. If the government was not so disgusting... Im such something could be done . The reporter's, you have to absolutely respect their courage .
This is crazy. Don’t let this video deter you from visiting. It’s a truly amazing city. The city center is the most beautiful part of a city in the world in my opinion, having visited a lot of cities like Paris, Prague, Barcelona, Jerusalem, Bend, OR, Sedona, AZ… But it’s very de facto segregated. It’s amazing the contrasts in Cape Town and South Africa as a whole. I remember seeing a Ferrari driving through Soweto next to shanty houses.. and across the street there was a brand new enormous fitness center. Super crazy place. But you can safely drink the tap water pretty much everywhere.
My daughter was there and said to me mama it is a very beautiful country but never i would live there. Always looking over your shoulder is not a life. She was there four days and already robbed from her cellphone. She's half African but being white or other color doesn't make a difference.
Do you reslise that colonialism/ apartheid was even worse form of violence? You have literally several countries in different continents with this kind of violence ( urban). Your solution is colonize all of them?
Colonisation is the direct cause of this in the first place. By forcing larger numbers of the population into over crowded townships this was bound to lead to high levels of crime. Apartheid hasn’t ended , it just took a new form.
I am Zimbabwean i did my University studies at Stellrnbosch. Thats why i left South Africa it not a good country to raise a family and went back to my country to try my luck. Now violent crimes have increased in Zimbabwe and this has forced me to run away again to a more safer country. If Africa doesnt address poverty violence is going to spiral
@@primrosemellisa2618 munorara pai in Bulawayo were I am living everyday they are cases being reported a house has been robbed and all females in the house raped. Zimbabwe is coming of the rails. It's not only in Bulawayo robberies are happening around the country and there is loss of life. Gender based violence on the increase leading to death. Vanhu varikuurairana $1 chairo mumwe kubaya shamwari kuti wabatirei magaro ehuru raa soliciter.
Exactly what Mandela's British Monarch & USA CIA handlers ANC organization" envisioned.". Mandela 's wife created the "necklace" to fortify any resistance to them. The "necklace" is an automobile tire placed around the neck & on the shoulders of Blacks who didn't join the ANC. :.
If you goggle FLAME THROWER SHOUTH AFRICA and click images. Cars are equipped with flame 🔥 throwers. On the driver and passenger side theres pipes that aim up at a person thats trying to car jack you.
No. Look at some countries in Latin America. Super-prisons but crimes is still super high. It need to be a change from the deep in the whole society. Less rich people and less poor people. A huge middleclass is the answer to an more equal society. Look at the Nordic countries
Used to visit Cape Town back in 2016/2017 and, thankfully, did not experience any kind of crime. We had a wonderful time and the sights such as the table mountain, the va waterfront, the cape point are spectacular, however, all of the villas/houses surrounded by high metal and/or concrete fences do provide quite a feeling that you re not safe at all, i.e. that there the dangers are outside, not inside the fences and the overall athmosphere in CPT is tense
Just because people aren’t well off financially or just say poor doesn’t mean they have a right to kill each other. People in need should help each other out to make everyone better off. Terrorizing the people where you live or anyone for that case is just making it worse for everyone.
It’s a beautiful country, but can be very unsafe if you are foolish or unfortunate enough to wander into the wrong area. JBurg is a whole other level of violence, with cash transit vans being robbed on the highways in scenes reminiscent of the wild west. There are frequent “load shedding” periods (scheduled power outages) and when that happens it is best to be indoors somewhere. Corruption and greed.
Having lived in this country on and off with my job . it is far worse off now than it was under White rule back in the 80s , there was gangs and murders but not on the scale as it is now , and the SAP (south African police ) was not totally corrupt , as it is now , Back in the 80s they where better trained unlike now , jobs are given away to people in your own Tribe and not given to people who are better suited to do the job . all the infrastructure in this country is falling apart , power cuts , water cuts , power stations in poor conditions , sewage plants not working , crime massively increasing every day , its corrupt from the Top politicians to the bottom police man and every one in the middle . The country is amazing place and i love it , and the people too .its a shame African country's go this way .
@@Hippohappytt Does not bother me one way or another , as i will not be working there again , but you cannot disagree its sliding down the toilet fast , even the skilled workers are leaving the country as its un sake most of the South African people who i worked with have long gone , along with there money and skills . so take from that what you want , i was just saying what is a lovly country is sliding down the toilet fast .
You chose and choose to paint an utterly aweful picture of Cape Town. My family lived there. We were safe because we didn't go into ' hot ' dangerous areas that exist worldwide.
Lies, Ghana, Tanzania, Cape 🇨🇻 veder, Botswana, Bahamas 🇧🇸, sceyllece, etc. Even Nigeria is richer than most European countries. Let alone South Africa.
Anyone saving up for a fun vacation in South Africa of all places, would be using that money far more wisely by engaging the paid services of a psychiatrist who would be qualified to explore the insanity of that death wish to visit South Africa for ANY reason. Not for a million dollars paid upfront and in cash would I agree to spend one solitary day in that hell-hole called South Africa.
Alot of people around the world visited South Africa for 2010 fifa worldcup, I would rather visit South Africa than San Francisco - California, don't really see any difference from 2 locations I mentioned
You should still definitely go to Cape Town and SA, it is worth every visit as long as you stick to the rules and don‘t carry around your cellphone, expensive jewellery etc. carelessly. Avoid townships at all costs as well as driving at night. But trust me, this country and its people is wonderful and diverse.
I agree. My father told me stories of being robbed in Paarl in the 60's and 70's by gangs with similar-sounding names. Thank God he got us out of that country!
@@volvoguy1979 Careful, the 60's and 70's were during Apartheid, so it doesn't follow the agenda of 'Apartheid ending caused this' that the op is implying by saying '30 years'.
This is Nelson Mandela's legacy. This is the mess that he created by defounding capable, experienced law enforcement and replacing them by criminals and corrupted people with tribal attitude.
I lived in Cape Town from 1991 till 1993... the problems and crime mostly in the Crossroads and Guggeleto townships but seems its spread out to the other suburbs. I certainly didn't have to live like that. Very sad.
With a population of nearly six million, Cape Town is the second city of South Africa. Many of the richest people in the country have ocean villas there. But there is a dark side to this breathtakingly beautiful city. Three thousand people a year are murdered in Cape Town, making it the most dangerous city in Africa.
You need to take the statistics and put it into context else you are spreading fake news. You need to look at WHO (which demographic) the statistics reflect. The statistics show that the vast majority of these deaths and casualties are young men aged 14-30 years old that live in townships where gangsterism is rife. These casualties are due to gang violence between other gang members in the bid for territory and resources. These are poverty stricken township communities where resources and access to opportunities and social mobilisation are severely lacking. Unless you are a gangster or are living in those communities you are not in danger of losing your life. I used to work in the most dangerous gang-ridden communities for years in Cape Town, so I know first hand of what I'm talking about. The reality is that these gangs are formed out of the need for survival and there is a whole story there to unpack that is untold. It is heartbreaking. Please do your homework properly before painting a picture that portrays the image that the city is dangerous. The truth is that there are poverty stricken communities in the city that are dangerous just like everywhere else in the world.
This is fake news. You need to look at the statistics properly to draw accurate conclusions. The statistics show that the vast majority of the deaths and casualties are among young men aged 14-30 years old in poverty striken township communities. Most of these deaths are gang related and are as a result of skirmishes for territory and resources. A lot of the young men recruited into these gangs are forced into it while they are children. That means their decision to be part of these gangs are sorely based on survival ironically. If they decide to leave they are killed. There is a whole story about this that is untold. I have worked in the most dangerous communities in Cape Town for years, so I know first hand of what I am taking about. Please do your homework properly before you start giving people the false perception that their lives are imminently in danger if they visit or live in Cape Town. Cape has impoverished dangerous communities just like everywhere else in the world.
Hmm .. the violence is centred sadly in the Cape Flats where most people would never go. It’s desperately sad for the folk who live there but it’s long been gangland. Elsewhere, life is amazing, the city, suburbs and surrounds .. and the people .. are beautiful. It’s a very one sided report.
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This is why I left. What a crazy beautiful country ruined by crime and corruption.
Trust me it’s not
@@gyuhmnyggh How is it not?
Amerikaner in Kapstadt.
This usually happens with decolonization.
@@gyuhmnyggh, it’s not what?
The 15yr old being praised for his first homicide by the same people complaining about neighborhood shootings is absurd and sick.
😂😂😂😂😂 welcome to SA
It's not the same people...ah, wait a sec...all blacks look the same !! Got it
This is the new SA as created by the international community and their obsession to end white government.
@@colinj5099 You literally have one of the leaders of the Dixie Boys with her talking behind her and supporting her, she is then seen behind the man that's gloating about the 15 year old committing his first homicide. These two scenes are filmed at the same location right after each other with the same people. The fact you try to gaslight us into believing we are wrong by just claiming racism is a huge reason why South Africa is the way it is now
@@marw9541 right, what would I do without your knowledge of the cape Flats. I'll be so scared next time walking my brother's dog on a 5km loop after sunset, talking to residents and itinerant workers.
I am not saying this doesn't exist, but you would seriously struggle to stumble upon it. There are very dangerous areas, much like in South America too (or even worse there), but what would make you go out of your way to be there?
I recently stayed in Camps Bay in Cape Town and have to say I have never seen a more beautiful and affluent neighbourhood anywhere in the World, million dollar beach front mansions, supercars everywhere and beautiful beaches. Watching this video its difficult to even believe how different life in the flats are compared to the more affluent parts
CT is beautiful But There are more beautiful places around the world without the crime 😂
Nothing becomes affluent without consequence. Repeat that to yourself
Didn’t you see the squatter camps opposite the millionaire mansions? I mean in some parts the millionaires are separated by just one road. Or how you have canal walk and khayelitsa , it’s unbelievable
Beautiful but all houses/ mansions have electric fence and security car hired in the neighbourhood. Also it is hard to miss the homeless the slum near by and on the way to the airport 😢
Check our grassy park, Hanover park lotus river, not to mention gugulethu and Kayelitcha
we fled south africa 6 years ago and it was the best thing we could do for our small kids. so grateful to our new country and hoping our kids will never experience the level of violence we grew up in.
@@MXRiderFiftyTwo I'm no different mate. Aus is amazing
Don't move to Chicago.
Don't move to Chicago.
@@jillsipocz3582 😂
Fled😂😂💀come on you moved .fled what war .What violence did you grow up in ?
Poverty is just an excuse. Other African countries are more poor but this level of crime and stupidity isn't witnessed. Theirs is nonsense.
South africans are influence our country
It’s income inequality powered by racism in all these cases its people who have been intentionally marginalized the Irish gangs the Italian mob the Mexican cartels
So they just do it for fun?
@@Hippohappytt Why are much poorer countries in Africa less violent, then? EDIT: Nobody is saying it is for fun. We are saying poverty is not the reason.
@@coffeehousedialogue If you are really interested then Read "Gang Town" by Don Pinnock.
My friend's husband was an Obstetrician, and he was on his way to a delivery. He stopped at a red light. He was shot dead. It was 7 am in the morning. She migrated to Australia with her children.
@@janhorton5197 That's terrible and sad.
I’m sorry to hear that. Did this happen in the flats neighborhood?
The ANC had the opportunity to build something beautiful for everyone. Instead they robbed the nation and left despair.
I know right, who could have seen that coming.
Is ours to rob
@@IntroducingMrLuccicongratulations😂
@@junioradult6219 Colonizers create make up money to give to themselves this was made from African paper is ours by right this is facts
Well done to St. Mandela and his corrupt cronies! Regrettably, for South Africa, you are reaping what you have sowed; 30 years of black government and this is its legacy!!!
Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever lived in, but I’m glad this is being exposed because it’s a war zone in the flats
It really looks amazing.. The California of Africa!
@@jdre1976you've clearly never been to california, shut up
@@drizzlybear350 jdre1976 is right! I lived in California for thirty years, and unfortunately the violence is so similar to Cape Town. So glad I left!
@@drizzlybear350 You haven’t seen how San Francisco and Los Angeles look like now, didn’t you?
We are called Coloured, not mixed race. Pls respect our race and culture
This new South Africa sure seems like a massive success story!
There is way more poverty in other African countries but u don’t see this level of crime
More to take for the gangs in SA. Apartheid still plays a role
@@buckethead420 excuses, as usual. Poverty doesn't have to equal this level of crime, especially since, as has been noted, there are much poorer nations per capita than SA. Pathetic.
Huge difference between poor and rich creates crime. Why rob others when they are all as poor as you?
@@Truther945 grega understood what i meant...you did not
Its the useless corrupt ARC to blame.@buckethead420
South Africa is more-or-less a failed state now. The Governments have had massive income at their disposal for decades since Apartheid ended. They're no longer at war with all their neighbours, they have wonderful land and all kinds of mineral resources.
The place ought to be booming. There should have been affordable housing projects, schools and new hospitals and clinics sprouting up everywhere. This would have led to growth and jobs and hope.
Alternatively, you can build mansions for all your supporters, buy them BMW cars and set up fake businesses to launder the Government money into personal bank accounts.
They have now a long established political class which is an organised Kleptocracy. It doesnt matter who you vote for, or what they promised - They WILL steal all the money as first order of business.
Its a heartbreaker. I remember the hope everyone had when Mandela was released from jail. But they held him 20 years too long. His wife had become a political party on her own and out of control. And he was released as a lost old man surrounded by younger and greedier people who'd used the ANC as a ladder to personal wealth.
I personally used to think that 'white flight' was about racism - white people refusing to accept one person, one vote.
Now 20 years later, you realise that these were ordinary people, plumbers, engineers, mechanics and their families who
couldnt survive the lawlessness and crime going on. Not rich enough to have teams of armed guards and so on - what kind of choice did they have?
You have no idea what a failed state is if you think SA is a failed state. It still functions even with all its corruption. No one is saying it’s good but to jump to call it a failed state is ridiculous. Visit Somalia just once and you’ll understand what a real failed state is and how it “operates”.
@@modernmelbourneman 'Failed State' is a relative term. What I said was that S.A. was more-or-less a failed state.
Its like a sugar lump placed on a saucer full of water. It retains its form for a good long while even though it is dissolving inexorably.
Its like that with countries too.
Somalia was on its way to failed statehood during the time of Siad Barre -after his coup of 1969 led to the destruction of state institutions and kleptocracy.
In Lebanon, also a more or less failed state, the crunch came during the civil war in the 1970's and Israeli invasion.
Both of these sugar lumps have taken decades to finally collapse into chaos and one has dissolved more than the other - but the process has been the same.
South Africa isnt quite there yet. But all the failures and bad governance/corruption is alive and well. And once this process starts, it seems theres no way back.
@@Boviss1Bovis I thought the Mandela's only added to the corruption what with their death squad "Mandela United" killing political opposition.
@@modernmelbournemanthat's the point you squabble over? Can you counter any other the other excellent points?
@@modernmelbourneman Comparing your country with Somalia is an absolutely new low. How low are your standards?
As a tourist , my impression of Cape Town is that is a city of extreme contrasts , the city has lots of upmarket shopping centres , high quality hotels and beautiful homes and some high quality suburbs .
I have walked around the streets in the inner city late at night without any problems .
The majority of problems that occur in Cape Town occur in areas well away from the city centre where tourists don't usually travel to .
Those who don't like extreme hot weather , Cape Town is ideal as the weather there is very moderate .
One of the main problems with South Africa is the electricity supply because each day the electricity is turned off in all areas for a certain amount of hours per day or night which is not a good safety procedure and it is predicted that it will take many years before the electricity supply will get back to normal .
Sounds like LA California
I think the president of El Salvador should rule for just 1 year in South Africa. What a lawless city.
maybe the president of the phillipines should try so too
I can’t imagine the transformation of that country under four years of his leadership
Yes send Nayeeb Bukele there, he transformed El Savador from being the most dangerous country with the highest homicide rate to the second safest country in the American continent
@@rtjahyadi7868 but with the highest femicide cases at the moment.
My heart goes out to the lady who lost her son Kyle. 21 years old. Our daughter was 24, 20 days ago. It's not right, not fair. And I hope whoever did this, suffers the worst karma can throw at them ! No parent or family should have this to carry !!! Such a good, beautiful young man. It's not right. Hopefully, a group of Dads will band together and take Cape Town back ! ❤ 🙏
so sad and senseless...
That's the problem..no, dads. Young boys raised by single mom's are the norm. No fathers
God comes for the wicked
Justice for both !
I used to live there. Thank God I don't live in that sh*t hole anymore. Safety is a dream that is real for me while living abroad. I'm so happy that I left South Africa. Never once do I regret my decision. Well done South African government (ANC). You're really a shining example of what no one wants.
What ethnicity are you and where did you move to? Glad you made it out of that hell hole.
@@privard89 I’m white, I lived on the flats (Parkwood) for almost 15 years and am surprised that I actually made it out alive. I live in China now. Super safe - It took me years to adjust to feeling safe and get out for the mindset that I constantly need to look over my shoulder. Did I “run away”? Absolutely, took the first chance I got to run to something better. My decision to leave really has noting to do with nationalism or the lack of it. I just need a few criteria to be met for my life: safety, income, stability.
@@pingpongdonkeykongkong well done for getting out. I loved South Africa for a lot of reasons but left in 2001 for the UK and I am glad I did. I do not even want to think of what could have happened if I had stayed, also not feeling free or doing things I enjoy because of the safety issue always present. It is a shame what has happened in SA, we must think of ourselves and our families safety which is very difficult in that kind of environment. I really don't know what the answer is for SA.
@pingpongdonkeykongkong could you not have moved to another area of CT? I heard that other areas are safe.
@@justanotherchick2701 well, i guess its safer however nowhere is really safe as crime can happen anywhere. I’ve been mugged in the city center and got away from an attempted second mugging. Bad luck of the draw for some I guess 😅 There are some truly spectacularly beautiful place in Cape Town and I do miss the scenery from time to time, so I go to visit now and then.
11 years ago, I left South Africa and to live in peace for so long is just mind-blowing. I never care anymore when I hear sounds at night, I never constantly scan my surroundings, and I I never practice how I'm going to react to violent situations all the time.
You must be living in my country...Australia...it's not perfect...but by far...better than poor poor South Africa...
Western media and leaders aren't allowed to criticise ANC for creating this mess because it's not PC.
Oh, anything Western is never, justified criticism included, welcomed in Africa.
@@abocas just western technology.. because they never ever invented anything there...
ANC was pushed up by Western lefties. Similarities with Hamas supporters.
Now I know why there’s so many South Africans living in Australia
We consider ourselves the lucky ones, especially the younger generations
Many of them are in Dubai as well , both white and black South Africans.
@@judasfire2 difference is in Australia, Canada and almost any other country you can take out citizenship, in Dubai no expat can!
@@len2son I understand I’ve grew up and lived in Dubai for 20+years. I think most of them are not there because of citizenship , but more because of safety and business opportunities.
Security is paramount
I live and work in poland and two of my colleagues are from SA (one of them is from Cape Town). They were both in their mid 40s when they came (independently) to poland and i wondered why on earth would the two mature men pack their bags, wives and kids and travel across the globe to settle in a country they most likely knew very little (if anything) about. They told me about the economic situation and mentioned that SA isn't a safe place but I didn't ask too many questions as i felt it was kinda rude. Well this video casts a little light on what they've told me
SA is very dangerous, even for African standards. My family is from Zambia but some live in SA for work. They have zero stories of violent crime in Zambia but 10s to 100s from SA, despite only living their for 2-3 years
South Africa is a case of a well marketed crime hellhole
I lived in South Africa for 30 years (1990 to 2020), but in Johannesburg's suburbs. We had a 6 foot wall, electric fencing, neibourhood patrols, closed off area with a singe road in and out.
The police is as useless as depicted. I had my car broken into and stuff stolen from it at a mall. Obviously, nothing further happened.Losses were at around R12.500 (around EUR 1000 at the time). The criminals rule the streets as shown in this documentary.
Where do you live now?
would you risk your life to protect people like you when the salary officers get still makes them poor. if you can afford to live in a gated community you also can pay them a living wage
@@liamhawkins4062 I'm now in Poland. I left SA on a Polish passport due to my roots. I maintained the spoken version of the language, so for me it was fairly OK/
@@gregwochlik9233 love Poland, great people, Katowice I have good friends.
@@gregwochlik9233am so glad you are in safe place now. South Africa without white people would have been a little burundi slowly. Police are weak. Soon will be like Haiti. It's sad. I heard a lot of horrible stories over there.
I think South Africa needs to take note of what the Salvadoran government are doing.
After passing legislation that suspends the right of association and legal counsel and increased the time spent in detention without charge.
This has resulted in nearly 80,000 dangerous gang members being taken off the street.
Turning El Salvador from the murder capital of the world to one of the safest in Central America.
detention meaning prison?
if so it wouldn’t make much difference majority gangsters feel more safer and empowered in prison, and the prisons are overcrowded🤷🏽♂️
@@wayrin5240they built a new prison, and none of the gang members are coming out, being a gang member = life sentence in said prison where they sleep on cold metal and eat prison food, and have cold showers they’re not enjoying themselves
while watching the vid had the same idea
Yes but they have no evidence half the time and the lock innocent people up. Would you like to be locked up for no reason at all?
@@Snowforest60 Yeah, it's not like American prison.
What a sad and heartbreaking state of affairs💔
Cape town is a dangerous place ...me and my family moved to Australia 🇦🇺
Don't worry, the Australian politicians are letting in thousands of Africans, you will feel like you're back in Cape Town in a few years.
BEST WISHES to you and your family .
:)
Yep. That's why I moved to the UK. Been here 19 years now and I've NEVER had a problem with crime. Come to think of it, I can't think of a single instance, NOT ONCE, anybody has ever asked me for money! Not once in 19 years!
“Who can afford to run will run
But what about those who can’t
They will have to stay
Opportunity (is)a scarce, scarce commodity
In these times I say…..”
‘Buju Banton - Murderer’
do u realize papau new guinea is right next to australia. i dont know if u seen footage of how savage the place is?
Lord Jesus please protect all of the people that are victims to crime.
Lol
not doing a great job is he
So i guess dismantling Apartheid didn't work to create a fair and just society.
That was never the point. It was a Zionist-Jewish agenda and since the agenda's been carried out here, "my work here is done."
@Official_Baba_yaga read whats there. I said dismantling.
@Official_Baba_yagano but atleast they didnt want to send the country into chaos
@Official_Baba_yaga Germany in 1950-20? What are you on about?
A doctor from Cape Town came to work in Canada. He & his wife felt so unsafe, they left everything they knew to get out.
Yep, my brother is an eye surgeon, he packed up his family and left to Australia. He also said he didn't want his kids potentially dying of AIDS in South Africa. Very sad.
Everyone not living a life like this can be grateful
Just what I kept thinking as I watched.
Thank you ANC. You have done your job well.
It’s their country they can do what the hell they like .
@@beatles373obsoletely
@@beatles373 we did let them do what they want, SA is a shit hole now
@@beatles373 Certainly, they can do "what the hell" they like, and they must love hell, because that's what they created.
@@MrRezilloi am from colombia, and we did the same thing sadly, we chose the worst president ever, an ex criminal who was member of a drug cartel called, gustavo petro
What a sad existence. Life is cheap. Let us pray for peace in S A😮
Lets all agree here that the ANC government has failed at their job description
We have loads of white south Africans in cyprus. They have some stories!
It's unfortunately.
That's what you get for unfair labour practices.
Everything is always blamed on apartheid..Cape town was a very safe clean first world city until it was handed over to them..that’s when the crime shot up..Stop blaming apartheid..for once have the courage to tell it like it really is.
Well said mate. 👏
not your country in the first place
Thank@@janesmith1008thank you
@@janesmith1008after it was handed over it became hell lmao my grandfather is South African (black) lived through apartheid he moved out of SA after apartheid since it became significantly more dangerous not saying apartheid was a good thing but clearly the handing over process wasn’t done right or good at all
@@Snowforest60 and how does that make op's original comment ok? You're only part black but yet you are standing up and defending op's comment who sounds like an Afrikaan
Not surprising. The racial inequality is beyond insane. Whites live in nice almost American like neighborhoods while blacks live in slums with little good job opportunities.
The black government after decolonization wasn’t prepared to lead and was ineffective.
The behavioral choices inequality is insane.
Dude, white people live in slums there too. The videos are on UA-cam. You’re thinking about a long time ago.
There's my hometown!
This is normal for Cape Town, not exaggerated. Even in a 'good' middle-class suburb far from the townships, I've known six people who were killed.
They don't even have a forensic team there. If El Salvador can turn crime completely around in just a few years then anything is possible.
Since when has *EL SALVADOR* turned *CRIME AROUND???*
@@aroukapenn Since they built the CECOT prison and they signed the legislation that came with it. Homicide rates dropped immensly and are almost non existent at this point. You should look up CECOT El Salvador
@@aroukapennsince Mr Bukele is president of El Salvador.
@@aroukapennyoull be surprised
You do understand the people who live in South Africa now were living naked in the dirt and eating each other less than a century ago, right?
At least the South Americans built cities before the Spanish invasion. They had a written language, stacked stones and had a calendar and sense of time. Africans had none of that.
Great documentary
Nelson would be proud ... 🤣
Excellent work ANC
Pattern recognition seems to indicate that its safer to live apart based on one’s hide.
Not quite the point tho, is it
i live in the uk now but i lived round the corner from this place...Glen Cairn Heights, as a kid i would go down and collect the empty shell casings. Brought back good memories
I thank God and my parents every day for bringing us to America in 1970. When we got here we couldn't fathom houses without bars on the windows or walls around the property. Now I live without locked doors, always open windows and an unlocked car. I used to work in the adjoining city every day and the crime there doesn't affect the average person. Surely no one's cars are getting carjacked. I know not all of America is like this, but most of it still is. I don't live in fear. Europe is learning, real quick, what bringing a lot of Africans into a country can do.
99.99% of the United States is exactly what you said. What is the deal with the gang calling themselves the Americans? So bizarre
I Am a Filipino, my company sent me there last November 2023. I didn't experience any of that. Cape Town people are kind. Love that city.
How long were you there?
these areas are around the southern parts outside of cape town CBD. you can experience beauty to hell within a 15km distance of each other
Ok
I felt the same safety when i stayed there, until one day a friend was shocked and asked me "You haven't been robbed yet?!?!" . then i proceeded to get robbed atleast 1 or twice a year
Even somalia doesn't have this problem and they went through civil war for thirty years.
there's about 40 African countries that's not as violent as SA
Somalia is much worse than South Africa.
@@truthseeker-u7y Somalia is way more dangerous than South Africa.
@@jason4275I don’t think there is even any African Country that is like them
And with all these in South Africa's most famous city, Cape Town, South Africans go about saying that Nigerians and other African immigrants are responsible for the drugs and violence in their nation. How?
If you do not live in the townships you will see a beautiful City. My wife and I lived in CT for a year and did not feel unsafe. OK we had security and Electric fences.....40 million South Africans 7 Million white. So sad what has evolved.
germany in 10 years...cheers from germany- my condolences.
Haha, probably most of the western nations in 10 years if they keep defunding the police and don't get control of the wealth gap.
Lets be real, at this point if nothing is done, its the whole of the west in 15/20 years.....
if so, it's because of people like you.. cheers from germany
@@figonyoutube3459 heute schon deine Andacht an Königin Riccarda gehalten?
You're projecting @@figonyoutube3459
After renting a car with my girlfriend we got robbed 5 minutes after we left the aiport in goodwood. Shit is crazy
What did they take
@@isaacblake4201 girlfriends phone
@@isaacblake4201 Someone I know was kidnapped with her father and they demanded a ransom from her husband. Luckily the husband brought them the money and they were released.
@@MAZ440 sorry for the late reply that shit is really fucking crazy and I was just looking at Cape Town real estate 🏡 it’s looks so cozy and peaceful is South Africa like that in general it seems very dangerous
So this is the most dangerous place on Earth and Iceland is the safest place on Earth
Gee..I wonder why...what ever could be the reason behind both those truths?
The police are reusing old caution tape in the first 2 minutes of this documentary. This tells me all I need to know 😏
You ain't lying
Police & Thieves are the same story same thing brother
I'm afraid that major cities in America are becoming Cape Town in the future.
California is not much different from SA😂
Too late
What rock u been living under???
As a south african I have said europe will follow south africa with the way immigration is going
George Soros is aiding and abetting the South Africanization of the US.
I was born in South Africa and I loved growing up there
but I left because of the perpetual danger
I live in Greece now where I have never felt a moment of insecurity
And this is the country criticizing Isreal?
They are criticising because they have been paid to do so by the Chinese or Russians on behalf of Iran. The government is rotten to the core endemically corrupt.
Yes and they want to be the Giants of Africa
Yes, and the president of South Africa doesn't know how to take care of his country.
It’s always the leaders ! Either ANC or Nethanjahu
The SA govt wants to hide their corruption 😂😂
London, Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester, Bradford in fifty years from now.
It has already started.
@@JH-ck1nr Not 50 years from now 10 years from now. Same for most of the West.
South Africa, Brazil, and California. 3 of the most beautiful places on earth yet are some of the most dangerous places. So sad 😞
I pray for peace on earth 🙏🏼
I was in Rwanda in 1994.. i volunteered to assist with UN . The smell of decay of a human body has never left my nose.
Looking at this, shame such an amazing country is being exploited by other countries, and the poor are dirt poor.
If the government was not so disgusting... Im such something could be done .
The reporter's, you have to absolutely respect their courage .
I laughed when they said "the most dangerous gang in all of Cape Town, the Americans"
Do you disagree?
Americans vs hard livings vs mongrel. Saw a video from khaelitcha of a yong gang calling themselves Vatos Locos. Even the journalist cringed
Clearly you've never had the bad luck to cross paths with them
Love that the guy claiming to be native-born American has an accent not from the US.
@@JustMe-kg3xc his gang is called Americans. One of the largest gangs on the cape flats.
St. Louis is Cape Town without a beach.
Detroit is a better example - a place entirely built by one race and entirely destroyed by a different race.
My God. This and Haiti are hell on earth
If they don't take measures south Africa will be a little burundi soon .
@@barbarasara4033like a myanmar 😹😹😹😹😹
@@barbarasara4033what do you mean Burundi
I think it's much worse than Haiti
What do Haiti and SA have in common
Left 25 years ago and never looked back. I feel for these people who live under this constant strese. Health will take a hit for sure
say what u want about apartheid, but these cities were prosprous and safe back then
How a foreign press crew can get through to even gang leaders who are unmasked yet the cops can't is MINDBOGGLING!
This is crazy. Don’t let this video deter you from visiting. It’s a truly amazing city. The city center is the most beautiful part of a city in the world in my opinion, having visited a lot of cities like Paris, Prague, Barcelona, Jerusalem, Bend, OR, Sedona, AZ… But it’s very de facto segregated. It’s amazing the contrasts in Cape Town and South Africa as a whole. I remember seeing a Ferrari driving through Soweto next to shanty houses.. and across the street there was a brand new enormous fitness center. Super crazy place. But you can safely drink the tap water pretty much everywhere.
My daughter was there and said to me mama it is a very beautiful country but never i would live there. Always looking over your shoulder is not a life. She was there four days and already robbed from her cellphone. She's half African but being white or other color doesn't make a difference.
I hope people will soon understand the reasons why the colonizers never wanted to give them independence.
Amen
Do you reslise that colonialism/ apartheid was even worse form of violence? You have literally several countries in different continents with this kind of violence ( urban). Your solution is colonize all of them?
Colonisation is the direct cause of this in the first place. By forcing larger numbers of the population into over crowded townships this was bound to lead to high levels of crime. Apartheid hasn’t ended , it just took a new form.
I am Zimbabwean i did my University studies at Stellrnbosch. Thats why i left South Africa it not a good country to raise a family and went back to my country to try my luck.
Now violent crimes have increased in Zimbabwe and this has forced me to run away again to a more safer country. If Africa doesnt address poverty violence is going to spiral
Saka violence yacho inosvika apa here ??🙃
@@primrosemellisa2618 nhai hako iwe 😂 mapenzi aya arikuda kutifananidza nezvakadai. Iripi violence yacho yatisingamboone muharare
It is not poverty. There are many poor places in Africa. This does not usually happen. African governments need to limit gun access and drugs.
Zimbabwe is not like this. Please
@@primrosemellisa2618 munorara pai in Bulawayo were I am living everyday they are cases being reported a house has been robbed and all females in the house raped. Zimbabwe is coming of the rails. It's not only in Bulawayo robberies are happening around the country and there is loss of life. Gender based violence on the increase leading to death. Vanhu varikuurairana $1 chairo mumwe kubaya shamwari kuti wabatirei magaro ehuru raa soliciter.
I’ve been gone for 16 years. Never going back!
Going on 20 here 👍
This doesn't look like a society Mandela evisioned.
Mandela didn't care about the masses, only terrorism.
This was always the result as soon as the blacks got power, rancidly corrupt.
Exactly what Mandela's British Monarch & USA CIA handlers ANC organization" envisioned.". Mandela 's wife created the "necklace" to fortify any resistance to them. The "necklace" is an automobile tire placed around the neck & on the shoulders of Blacks who didn't join the ANC. :.
Mandela was one of the worst of the thugs. Many praise him but don't know his true history.
Many tried to warn the world that this would happen. The west will see it themselves very soon in their own countries.
Condolences to Sandra for loss of her son.
If you goggle FLAME THROWER SHOUTH AFRICA and click images. Cars are equipped with flame 🔥 throwers. On the driver and passenger side theres pipes that aim up at a person thats trying to car jack you.
that device was a flop and just made carjackers more likely to murd3r the driver off rip as a precautionary measure
I just couldn't live in such an area. The constant fear and drama is overwhelming.
If private companies can do this, then there is no excuse for not equipping and training better and more police.
If the gangsters get sentenced for 15 years then the crime would drop.The problem is the corrupted judiciary.
No. Look at some countries in Latin America. Super-prisons but crimes is still super high. It need to be a change from the deep in the whole society. Less rich people and less poor people. A huge middleclass is the answer to an more equal society. Look at the Nordic countries
@@didde-music People will change if SA build a huge mega prison that can hold hundreds of thousands guarded by armed military solders.
@@jason4275 'People will change because of prison'.. Oh my gosh.. Good luck!
@@didde-music Whether rich or poor, they all do crimes if the justice system is very lenient on crime.
That para- olympian runner only served 7 years for murder. He just recently got paroled
South Africa used to be such a wonderful place. What happened?
Used to visit Cape Town back in 2016/2017 and, thankfully, did not experience any kind of crime. We had a wonderful time and the sights such as the table mountain, the va waterfront, the cape point are spectacular, however, all of the villas/houses surrounded by high metal and/or concrete fences do provide quite a feeling that you re not safe at all, i.e. that there the dangers are outside, not inside the fences and the overall athmosphere in CPT is tense
interesting, I've always thought it was Johannesburg that was the most dangerous and most murderous city in SA
Nah it was not Johannesburg or Cape Town gang that committed the crime.
it was a Soweto group.
me too, I thought the same. Turns out Cape Town overtook Johanesburg in 2011 😮
Just because people aren’t well off financially or just say poor doesn’t mean they have a right to kill each other. People in need should help each other out to make everyone better off. Terrorizing the people where you live or anyone for that case is just making it worse for everyone.
Excellent documentary!
The most beautiful city I have ever been in life, but yet it’s so sad they live among so much criminality.
It’s a beautiful country, but can be very unsafe if you are foolish or unfortunate enough to wander into the wrong area. JBurg is a whole other level of violence, with cash transit vans being robbed on the highways in scenes reminiscent of the wild west. There are frequent “load shedding” periods (scheduled power outages) and when that happens it is best to be indoors somewhere.
Corruption and greed.
Having lived in this country on and off with my job . it is far worse off now than it was under White rule back in the 80s , there was gangs and murders but not on the scale as it is now , and the SAP (south African police ) was not totally corrupt , as it is now , Back in the 80s they where better trained unlike now , jobs are given away to people in your own Tribe and not given to people who are better suited to do the job . all the infrastructure in this country is falling apart , power cuts , water cuts , power stations in poor conditions , sewage plants not working , crime massively increasing every day , its corrupt from the Top politicians to the bottom police man and every one in the middle . The country is amazing place and i love it , and the people too .its a shame African country's go this way .
You left out the reverse racism and farm murders.
Idk, but it's something about what you´re saying that concerns me. It seems like you want to go back in time "under White rule". smh
@@Hippohappytt Does not bother me one way or another , as i will not be working there again , but you cannot disagree its sliding down the toilet fast , even the skilled workers are leaving the country as its un sake most of the South African people who i worked with have long gone , along with there money and skills . so take from that what you want , i was just saying what is a lovly country is sliding down the toilet fast .
@@Hippohappytt The country was much better under apartheid.
@@johnm84 Surely the country was better of when 10 % of the people owned 70% of the land
You chose and choose to paint an utterly aweful picture of Cape Town.
My family lived there.
We were safe because we didn't go into ' hot ' dangerous areas that exist worldwide.
Most European countries do not have such hot zones.
They need a president like in El Salvador who really cares about his citizens and isn't looking for bribes around the clock.
Self entitlement is the mother of this evil.
Very prevalent in SA
This documentary needs way more subtitles.
Sad how such a promising country goes down so fast just because of greedy politicians and corruption.
How can a human live with such terror each day.. it’s incredible that government doesn’t do anything to preserve good people. What a shame
Government wants this lmao
It makes it easier for him to not do his job as he hasn’t been doing for years
@@DavideAmbrosio-g8o The government doesn't care and the government is corrupt.
There has never been a successful run black country black city or black county
Lies, Ghana, Tanzania, Cape 🇨🇻 veder, Botswana, Bahamas 🇧🇸, sceyllece, etc. Even Nigeria is richer than most European countries. Let alone South Africa.
@@999oj But these are all miserable poor countries
@@kisalliSeychelles and the Bahamas are not miserable 😂😂. Neither is Ghana or Cape Verde
@999oj - There are lots of thieves and robbers in Ghana
@@Accuface2000 I can say the same for any European countries
As a UNITED STATES CITIZEN, I had to check my passport again to see if I’m a real American lol these guys are the real African Americans
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
There’s a reason why they wanted segregation.
if you look at the slums i think segregation was/is the problem here.
3:55 Seems like a zombie apocalypse where the zombies can shoot guns.
Anyone saving up for a fun vacation in South Africa of all places, would be using that money far more wisely by engaging the paid services of a psychiatrist who would be qualified to explore the insanity of that death wish to visit South Africa for ANY reason. Not for a million dollars paid upfront and in cash would I agree to spend one solitary day in that hell-hole called South Africa.
@Edward-vo5prvery well said
@Edward-vo5pr Your presumptions are appreciated for all they are worth in the grand scheme of things. Have a great day!
@Edward-vo5pr clown
Alot of people around the world visited South Africa for 2010 fifa worldcup, I would rather visit South Africa than San Francisco - California, don't really see any difference from 2 locations I mentioned
@@1st-1ast Given the option of being stalked by a buffalo or by a lion, I would much rather see the lion stalk the buffalo.
Crime is why I left South Africa. I couldn’t continue living in fear.
You want find this amongst south Africa's neighbors. It's shocking how such crime can exist in south africa
I was planning a trip for 2025..absolutely no way..thanks for the great documentary
You should still definitely go to Cape Town and SA, it is worth every visit as long as you stick to the rules and don‘t carry around your cellphone, expensive jewellery etc. carelessly. Avoid townships at all costs as well as driving at night. But trust me, this country and its people is wonderful and diverse.
been like this for at least 30 years old old news!!!!!!!
I agree. My father told me stories of being robbed in Paarl in the 60's and 70's by gangs with similar-sounding names. Thank God he got us out of that country!
Wasn't there like 10k plus murders a year in the early 90s?
@@volvoguy1979 Careful, the 60's and 70's were during Apartheid, so it doesn't follow the agenda of 'Apartheid ending caused this' that the op is implying by saying '30 years'.
This is Nelson Mandela's legacy. This is the mess that he created by defounding capable, experienced law enforcement and replacing them by criminals and corrupted people with tribal attitude.
South Africa is so beautiful! Had it not been for their high crime I would have settled there😩
What I got from this documentary: South Africa is turning into Haiti. Simple as that
Same genetic of population. Eugenics at work.
@@zell863you got the point
its always the usual suspects robbing people in this country
I lived in Cape Town from 1991 till 1993... the problems and crime mostly in the Crossroads and Guggeleto townships but seems its spread out to the other suburbs. I certainly didn't have to live like that.
Very sad.
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾
How safe is Georgetown?
@@unromanoarecareanaveragero8275 if ok we don't really have too much violence
@@jamaljames2578 Do you live in the center or in a suburb?
@@unromanoarecareanaveragero8275 I'm living 15 min away from the city
@@jamaljames2578 Oh, I see. I read on the internet that Georgetown is quite dangerous and I wanted to ask you, a local, how truly safe it is.