[Aulig]

I visited South Africa in February. You can tell crime is rampant by how every home has 2m walls with barbed wire or electric fencing on top.

Most of the country was still very beautiful, but man Johannesburg is really run down. My father was there 30 years ago and he couldn't get over how this once beautiful city could have come to this. Vacancies and broken windows everywhere right in the city center.

If you're just looking to go on vacation in the general region, Namibia is a better option in my opinion.

[HideousKojima]

A fun game to play on Google Maps Street View is to go to Johannesburg or Cape Town and time how long it takes to find a home that doesn't have a spiked/barbed-wire/etc. fence or wall.

[elp]

In my slightly upmarket Johannesburg suburb I would guess about 80% of the houses have electric fences. You can figure out how old the installation is by the number of strands the fence has. It varies with fashion.

The other fun game is swapping stories about the dumbest way you have shocked yourself on your own fence. Mine was by trying to lift a branch of my fence while barefoot using an aluminum pool pole. I thought my wife had turned the fence off.