About Africa-
I studied at the University of Cape Town in SA. I was there for a year and then spent a few months traveling through East and North Africa. I loved it. SA is the only country on the continent with anything approaching the living standards of modern countries. So if you’re thinking of going to Africa to live for awhile, I think it is the only reasonable option. Well, I guess that’s not really true. In other African countries you can find a tiny few well developed places, but these are just for foreigners like yourself. If you rough it a bit I found that in some countries such as Malawi you can survive on USD5 a day or less. That’s OK for traveling around, but you don’t want to live like that. I suppose the coast going from Cape Town up to Durban must be something like the Gold Coast in Australia.
South Africa is a very dangerous country. They have the highest murder rate of any country in the world outside of a war zone. This used to be mostly confined to the black areas, but now that it is a black run country there is a lot more mixing between whites and blacks in different areas. You would think that this would be a positive development but it has actually made the crime problem worse because now you have many desperately poor people in close proximity to (comparatively) rich white South Africans. Maybe I was lucky. The year I was there nothing bad ever happened to me, but several people I knew had some bad experiences. The father of one of my friends was murdered. Stolen cars, house break-ins, etc.
This one girl I knew in Cape Town, Angelique (unfortunately I never got to know her as well as I would have liked if you know what I mean…) has gone on to be a CNN news reporter. She became quite famous in SA after I left. Anyway the reason I bring that up is that she was engaged to a famous rugby player and she ended up fleeing SA after a well publicized incident in which he was murdered by some darkies right in front of her, and she barely escaped with her life. In fact many (white) South Africans leave the country and end up in Australia from what I understand.
CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Angelique van der Byl