South Africa - The Deadliest Country in the World!

Lions, gun battles, disease, murders! I survived them all, but how?

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[Clark_Kent_ZA]

Black South African and serpentza is spot on. Every member of my family has been robbed. I was robbed at knife point, experienced a break-in and nearly got hijacked by fake police.

[bam]

Watching a stadium full of black South Africans chant "kill the Boer" was an eye opening experience to the hatred that fuels that region's politics. Watching American media excuse it as 'part of their culture' was an eye opening experience that I don't hate our media enough. I think I do, but I don't.

[clive]

"A lions roar sounds like a complaint"
Lion shouts "I demand to speak to the manager!!"

[wifegrant]

The day before I immigrated to the US, there was a armored truck robbery by the bank I was at. The guy at the ATM next to me was shot in the leg. In the 90's, we had multiple farm attacks on our farm. My parents would sit at the windows in the dark house and shoot at the people shooting at our house with AK's. We hid under our beds as kids whenever that happened. It happened a few times. Twice they shot at our house after putting our fields on fire. I've seen bodies twice while walking to school in the morning too. Our neighbors were murdered. The wife was "assaulted" and they both were decapitated with barbed wire.

[shadesofgday]

My trip to south africa, I got in a cab at J-burg. As we were going through a dodgy area a woman kind of half walked in front of the car and the driver clipped her. He hit the gas and bailed and I was like ''shit man is she ok Should we go back?'' and he said ''it's a set up my friend, if we stopped they would have robbed us''. Beautiful place but very scary.

[capet]

Winston, I am South African Chinese. I grew up in Johannesburg and also lived and worked in Hong Kong going to China. You have experienced both cultures so extensively. Truly resonate and love your content. I live in Canada now and always good listening to your views.

[michaellawson]

I lost 13 friends and acquaintances in 9 years through murder. I got away twice. Burgled 6 times in 2 years, lost 300 beehives to political arsonists and finally left South Africa. Glad to be in a safer place now.

[stephanterblanche]

South African here. Survived 4 attempted hijackings, one home invasion (beaten to a pulp), a shootout when the restaurant I was eating at was robbed, 3 explosions (during apartheid when the ANC's terrorism campaign was in full force). Lost a colleague who was robbed in his house and hacked to death with an axe.

[capet]

My family and relatives have been carjacked, home envisioned, attacked, robbed at gunpoint, shot at. You will always know someone in your circle where this has happened. Winston is not exaggerating.

[Phiyedough]

A chap I worked with told me a story of someone he knew in South Africa. This man lived near a pub and several times his car got stolen by people wanting to get home from the pub. Each time it would be found abandoned and he got it back. Eventually he put a poisoned bottle of whiskey in the glove compartment. Next time the car got nicked it was found full of corpses!

[petrosianus]

I am ethnic Chinese, born in Johannesburg and having lived there for 19 years. The family left to immigrate to Canada during the Apartheid era (in 1970), which I remember to be peaceful with low crime rates in the cities. From what I've seen recently on the internet, SA has devolved into some third world country. Every so often, I fall to my knees to thank God we had left. Going back just to visit? No way.

[garylancaster]

I used to work with a South African guy, now living in rural England in peace. He went bsck with his young family to visit his parents and told me how scary it was. Hyper vigilant and hyper aware at all times. He said he thinks a lot of people there have PTSD

[john_doe_not_found]

I've worked with several South Africans who are now living in Canada. They complain food and housing are more expensive in Canada. But as the one fella said, "What price tag can you put on your family's safety?".

[jazzbeaux]

Yes, more surviving Africa stories. Love to hear your dad's stories, too.

[mattyvsmithy]

One thing I love about South Africans that I meet is nothing can break their spirit. Every single one of them will regale me with unbelievable stories of street shootings, hold-ups with guns, home invasions and near-death experiences, etc. Yet, they will always smile, cracks jokes and carry on with great humour despite the shit they have been through.

[vlastimil-furst]

Hello Winston. I'm Czech. One man from my church moved to South Africa some 30 years ago, when life wasn't so good here. He found a good job there, got married, had two kids there. He liked living there – it was actually his wife who wanted them to move to Czechia with him as she didn't feel safe and she was afraid for their children.

It's about five years ago that they moved, so I'd say the situation isn't getting better there since you lived there, it keeps getting worse. So, the wife and both kids are learning Czech language now, and maybe they are getting used to a bit lower living standards, but at least they are not living in violent country and they are not hated for being white (yet).

[mr.skrywer]

Expat, left 3 months ago to Australia. Winston is spot on. Have meen hijacked by gangsters, gun against my head. Been robbed while I was asleep in my house. Grandfather murderd brutally on our farm. Been in a gun crossfire. Mother was robbed and held at gunpoint in my brother's house while she was there alone, they took her engagement ring off her hand themselves, threatend to cut off her finger if she resisted. Horrible things happend to my wife aswell when she was younger. I just kindof blocked it all out, cant even remember it all. Love the place, hate the majority of people.

[Ayo]

Winston, your experiences remind me of my years in Haiti. To have a home and to see it all crumb, then turn worse and worse each waking day is something that is too hard to just simply swallow. I feel your pain as it is also my pain as well, my friend.

[TheStigma]

Funny fact: The reason why so many people have a wrong impression of what a lion's roar sounds like is in large part due to the "Metro Goldwyn Mayer" intro that was seen at the start of so many movies and other media for decades. You know the one. In that clip they replaced the lion's roar with that of a tiger - because it sounded more impressive. But tigers and lions sound nothing alike. This original error in perception propagated through later media. People expected to hear that kind of sound when they saw a lion on screen, so directors kept using tiger sounds. Now whole generations who have watched far more movies than nature documentaries have been unintentionally gaslit on this topic :P
There are loads more similar examples of wrong sounds in movies and media being intentionally used, but I find this one particularly memorable.

[freddyeltigre]

Lived in SA 45 years ago for 4 years. Worked in Rhodesia in 77 and was told by resident who lived there, to get out of SA because it will be the same there as it was in Rhodesia. After dealing with a Totsi at work and getting stabbed twice, fortunetly I got the upper hand, I'm pretty strong. Our house got broken into where I had to protect the family. That was the final straw for me. We gave the house and car away for people to take over the payments, sold all the furniture and little savings we had and headed back to Canada in june 78. My Best Friend ever was a boer named Koos Pretorius I will see Koos in my way out of this world.