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US tourist missing in South Africa
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A Stuijt |
TOURISTS BEWARE – SOUTH AFRICA IS DANGEROUS!
April 12 2010 – CAPE TOWN, South Africa. Mr Charles William Johnson, 58, a US tourist who was staying at a Stellenbosch guest house, went missing on Saturday 10 April 2010 at 8 am when he went on foot to the shops but never returned. He had gone to have photographs developed. However there has been some good news: he apparently got lost somehow – and ended up in George, where he was found back safe and sound. While this story thus had a good ending – it could just as easily have ended in tragedy: South Africa is a very unsafe place.
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Alo beware of hijackers on the roads from the airports...
An American hijacking victim Hartmut Detler, 69 who was hijacked and kept as a hostage in August 2009 said afterwards: “I didn’t expect this, South Africans are so friendly…’
SAPA reported from Johannesburg that Detler was hijacked at the exit of the Johannesburg International airport near Kempton Park, Johannesburg. Tourists are often attacked in South Africa – they are not only totally unaware of how to protect themselves in the most violently-criminal country in the world, but also often tourists do not report these crimes to the police, as they don’t want to have to return to testify in the very rare event that such criminals are caught by the SA Police.
Detler, 69, told The Star newspaper that he was being transported from the airport to a lodge near Sun City in a tour operator's minibus on Wednesday when a gang of very aggressive, armed men forced the vehicle off the road on the R21 highway. Detler and the driver, Geoffrey Maladzhi, were tied up and told to lie down. They were kept hostage for more than half an hour. "In the beginning they were very rough and threatening. They said they would shoot us if we moved," he told The Star. "Later they started taking my shoelaces to try to tie us up. One guy pretty much sat on me." For the SAPS crime stats 2008/9 (newer ones are not available) , view: http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2009/categories.htm
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TOURISTS BEWARE – SOUTH AFRICA IS DANGEROUS: PICTURE ALBUMS OF CRIME VICTIMS
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