Full Resolution And here is Charl, our other officer.
South Africa as a whole is very high for violent crime -- in the top 10 across the world. When we lived in Pretoria, we saw guns pulled several times, I got carjacked once, and our neigbors had home invasions. When I observed with my students in Pretoria, we were required to have security guards along with us from the university.
It turns out that the Karoo is quite a bit safer than the cities. We likely would have been fine without the guards. But they were super helpful as translators and for their local knowledge.
