The following letter appeared under Crime Expo's "LETTERS" section:

 

 

If Crime Expo SA was about exposing the truth, one can expect of Mr Watson to supply at least some of the names of international tourists "slaughtered or executed" daily. The embassies of the relevant foreign countries from which these tourists came would've be able to supply the names.

 

The following letter appeared under Crime Expo's "EXPOSED" section:

 

This article, posted on the website, made false claims about the South African Parliament, misleading visitors, since it is actually an urban legend - pertaining to the 535 US State Congress members in 1999.

 

 

The following article appeared under Crime Expo's "EXPOSED " section:

 

 

I sent Mr Watson the following comment, but he didn't post it on his website:

 

"According to the American CIA, Israel has a population of 6,2 million. Lebanon a population of 3,8 million. That gives you a total population of 10 million. South Africa has a population of 47 million.

There are 55 killings per day in South Africa compared to the 42 in Israel and Lebanon when in war. So when you compare South Africa with Lebanon and Israel, you'll find that that they're as an average 368 percent more dangerous than South Africa.

In Lebanon 39 per day in that week. Thus, it was 1026 percent more dangerous in Lebanon than in South Africa.

By placing false information on this site you'll definitely damage the credibility of it. I accept South Africa has an unacceptable violent crime rate, but by spreading false information and say South Africa is more dangerous than Israel and Lebanon in war... is not the way to do it."

 

The following article appeared under Crime Expo's "CURRENT CAMPAIGNS " section :

 

 

In the light that Neil Watson would appear later the day on Irish radio, I decided to post a comment which told that South Africa was voted the #1 long haul destination in 2004 by the Irish. He didn't placed my comment.

 

The following letter appeared under Crime Expo's "LETTERS" section:

 

 

After I read this letter I decided that it would be a great idea to support Thamsanqa, after 30 odd people insulted her. It took me some time to compile the following mail, which I sent to Mr Watson, but again, he didn't placed it on his site. My mail read as follows:

 

"Agree with Thamsnaqa: You simply can't compare South Africa's murder rate etc. with USA or UK . In a country where 27% is jobless, where 15% works in the informal sector and where 50% live below the poverty line... SA is also the 9th (out of 180 countries) most unequal society in the world. It's also a fact that nations in change has more violent crime.

O yes, I don't deny the fact that SA's violent crime is unacceptable and that the government is not doing enough, but I really think that we have to be realistic e.g. if Washington D.C. has the same murder rate as South Africa, don't be surprised if Johannesburg's murder rate is also high. In fact, if you take Cape Town's murder rate, you'll see that it's on par with Washington D.C. And then you can also see that the vast majority of murders happen in places tourist will never ever go to. This site "expose" violent crime, but really, give NO statistics about tourist murders etc. So as a tourist visiting this site.. it has no reliable information. I read on an independent website that in 2001, 98% of tourists left SA with no experience of crime - compared to the 97,3% of Australia/Sydney in 2005. Whatever you may read in that stats... It's obvious that this site put people under the wrong impression. Surely, SA's crimes is as an average much more violent than Australia 's, but our amount of crimes aren't necessarily so much higher. I do hope though, that the government use the 2010 World Cup to sort out our problems regarding safety."

 

The following letter appeared under Crime Expo's "LETTERS" section:

 

 

Mr Watson told people that they kill you amongst other at any of our beaches. Did it also refer to 20 of South Africa's beaches that received Blug Flag Status in 2006? (Source) Blue Flag gives local and foreign visitors the knowledge that their beaches are clean, environmentally sound and adhere to international safety and other tourist standards. He also says that "many people visit South Africa and some end up in the cargo section of the aircraft". Does it also refer to the several hundreds of thousands of Australians that visited South Africa between 1995 and 2003? According to the Australian Institute for Criminology, of the 158 Aussie tourists that have been killed in other countries, not a single one of them were in South Africa. (Source) 93 701 Australian and New Zealand tourists visited South Africa in 2004 alone. (Source)

 

The following letter appeared under Crime Expo's "LETTERS" section:

 

 

It's obvious that tourists and investors were being mislead on the website. How will South Africa ever be able to eradicate unemployment without foreign investment?