Living in the UK and having just come back after traveling the world for the last 2 years I can be very naive and say about the crime in SA as, what crime? I am not naive but I am not negative. I was a policeman in South Africa for 5 years and eventually leaving the service in 1996. I know what crime is like having seen it first hand as a cop.

But SA is a amazing country with amazing people. The majority of South Africans are honest hardworking people. The criminals, the minority, driven by greed. If one look at the crime profile in SA I can almost bet you that loads of the crimes are by repeat offenders. Its greed that motivates them, not poverty.