Crime

S.A. is known to have a high crime rate+we've experienced this in some regards while being here just 3months.

We've been careful to follow advice+so not go out on our own in the dark,only going into town+safe areas,not having expensive things visible,always locking our flat door even when we are in,locking our bedroom doors at night too+when we're out, keeping quiet about having our lap tops with us+hiding them when their not in use,+the like. We're also lucky that some of our windows have guards on,like many people's window in S.A.,so that people are unable to break the window+then get into your place. As a result, thankfully we've been ok so far.
However, there's been some crime experienced at college here. 1student came back to his bungalow to find a man inside+he was lucky that this man just sat+waited for the police rather than tried to hurt him to escape,another student had things taken from his room,another had his car broken into,+another had some of her clothes from the washing line stolen! Sadly many flash discs (i.e. memory sticks) also go missing from COTT's computer room+it's likely that its students who have taken these.

Clearly stricter systems need to be in place to combat crime,+I feel there should also be the mindset encouraged that crime is unacceptable. Nonetheless,it is probably inevitable to some extent as some people here have so little that I suspect they use crime as a means to survive.