Living in Africa, even if for a short period of time, always leaves a mark on someone's life.My bond to South Africa, South Africans and the city of Johannesburg (amazingly enough) is rock solid and I can't help but missing my old country of residence.
I'm back to reading Mail & Guardian (SA's serious paper) online and focusing on African conflicts in the International press - like the crisis in Congo for instance.
At the same time, I've been getting lots of e-mails lately from SA friends, sharing crime stories and warning of new techniques of breaking into properties, highjacking, killing.
As Patrick said, we were on "borrowed time" in our last months in Jo'burg - as we were some of the only ones of a group of friends who were never touched by crime.
I rather stay on this meager side of SA statistics.
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