Comments on: We are the crime capital of the world, right?

By: Banana

Banana — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:04:14 +0000

You condoning crime in SA? ha ha as if we needed an invitation David…unfortunately if it is clever crime you want…look elsewhere, (I didnt expect Sweden though either, must be honest) there is no need when you can just go in guns blazing and leave with the loot before the coppers even arrive on scene.
Our lesser spotted crime fighters can be seen coming to a Steers or KFC Drive through near you!
Nice post….a fun piece to read.

By: Priya

Priya — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:25:57 +0000

You made me laugh about the crime! *chuckles*

By: Rod MacKenzie

Rod MacKenzie — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:50:16 +0000

“whenever a South African émigré is dining with foreigners, he will called upon to regale his dinner companions with talk of his crime-ridden homeland.” – bullshit. Hackneyed stereotyping, we do not in Shanghai. Codswallop. Assumptions.

By: Sivu

Sivu — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:15:41 +0000

Hillarious!! You’ve made my day man!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:01:44 +0000

When we laugh at any crime, we let it flourish. This is insulting to all of us who have been victims or have loved victims. Sometimes you can be just too witty and clever and it fails.

By: Paul Young

Paul Young — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:25:29 +0000

Thank you to all the readers who appreciated this article as lighthearted humour. I have been suitably put in my place and regret responding so seriously as I did at first. Yes, we need to laugh at ourselves more often. As for stealing a country, who says it cannot be stolen twice!

By: Jennifer Lloyd

Jennifer Lloyd — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:32:46 +0000

Very clever and craftfully written and normally I would be laughing and sending it on to my friends. However, finding it difficult to even break a smile today because of a telephone call I received yesterday telling of a family member who got mugged at gunpoint at a Table View bus stop during the morning peakhour. Think she would find it difficult to laugh at your article too, along with all the hundreds of thousands of South Africans who are the victims of similar crimes.

By: Anon.

Anon. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:09:42 +0000

Great article, and for once, the responses are at least as brilliant as the article (one or two exceptions only). Viva sense of humour, viva! One of the more adaptive ways of coping with reality, I think.

By: Dave Harris

Dave Harris — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:48:17 +0000

Along the same vein as tim and Dr No…you gotta get your head in the game man….don’t give in so easily!
Show me a Swede who has amassed wealth for generations by creating laws to exploit other Swedes as cheap labor.
Show me a Swede who has shipped people from other countries as indentured laborers purely to serve his economic interests.
Show me a Swede who has after committing crimes of humanity against their fellow Swedes to suite his grand lifestyle, can still walk freely in Sweden.
Lets face it bro, we South Africans deserve the top spot due to our unblemished, kick ass track record, or better still – we at least deserve the honorary lifetime achievement award!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:55:38 +0000

Interesting enough, there have been three ATM blasts over the past year in Tasmania!! I ask you, that quiet,safe, forgotten place at the end of the earth?? The difference, as other have said, is in the violence of the daily petty crimes which impact immensely on South Africans. Latest I heard was someone stealing an ICU patient’s cell phone in a Pretoria hospital…………..not violent, but how petty!!? Heists are for European highflyers anyway – see Oceans Eleven etc