Hi all
Myself, my fiance', and our 6 month old child, along with my fiance's family, are planning to travel to Durban area in April to get married in the Drakensberg (not all of us, just me and my fiance' :) )
Following the wedding, her parents are flying from Durban to Port Elizabeth, and spending a few days driving to Cape Town (garden route), where they will then spend a couple days on the V&A Waterfront.
Ive heard nothing but negative things from people that live in SA currently, "you'll get hijacked, chances are you'll be robbed, shot etc". I am a very wary traveller, and spent a large part of my life living in SA (a long time ago now though), so im not too concerned myself, but my fiance's parents havent ever been to Africa, and only have travel experience of safe places that dont carry the risks of SA.
Im tempted to tell them to leave driving down the garden route, and perhaps even leave going to Cape Town at all given the recent muggings on Table Mountain, but is this being over cautious? anyone been recently or live over there currently that would advise against them doing this route?
It's such a pity such a beautiful country that is so full of potential is also so dangerous to travel too. I suppose thousands of tourists have safe holidays there every year, but reports seem to indicate it's getting worse and worse, and with people like Zuma in charge it looks like it'll only get worse and eventually end up a no go zone like a lot of countries in Africa.
This will probably be our last holiday there (have been three times) given the growing problems there, so I wanted to find out how much worse/more dangerous it had gotten from say, 10 years ago.