The view from the kitchen window at our Southern Suburbs cottage. It’s a beautiful home, way beyond our normal world tour standards.
Like every home in an affluent South African suburb, it is surrounded by an elaborate security system. The neighbors are still featuring old school barbed wire, as you can see, but many other homes are using electrified fences. Every window is reinforced on the inside with metal bars.
The local free newspaper, the Southern Suburbs Tatler, reported today that violent crime in the neighborhood is actually down this year. But the crime issue will not be disappearing from the headlines in South Africa anytime soon.
