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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (541)	7/3/2006 1:57:11 PM
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Blood on our streets. carteblanche.co.za >>On the 20th of June businessman Anver Mohammed became yet another South African crime statistic. At about seven pm he was driving home from work in Johannesburg. Taking the Glenhove off-ramp, Anver stopped at a red light. His son Ahmed says he was just 300 metres from the safety of home. Ahmed Gomes (Son): 'They attempted to open the door and couldn't get that right. I think they fired one shot which hit his arm, I think … the first one. And then he tried to go through the robot. He hit the car in front of him. I think there were several shots fired after that, and that was it. He tried to get back on the highway on the other side, but he didn't make it…' Last year the lives of over 18 000 ordinary South Africans were brutally destroyed. Anver's son Ahmed and the rest of his family are not alone in their grief. In fact, South Africa's alarmingly high crime rate is creating what policing expert Dr Johan Burger refers to as a psychosis of fear. Dr Johan Burger (Policing Expert): 'If I go to Jo'burg I have in the back of my mind this knowledge that Jo'burg is not a safe place. So I feel unsafe most of the time. I can imagine people that live there that hear and read on the news all the time about hijackings and robberies and other serious and violent crimes, that that same knowledge will be in the back of their minds. So that is what creates this so-called psychosis.' Two weeks ago this psychosis of fear became a reality for Cape Town journalist Megan Herselman. Lost after arriving in Johannesburg, Megan stopped on the side of the N1, near the Rivonia off-ramp. Andrew Nunnelly (Editor: Drive Out): 'She tried to phone a number of people, including myself, and wasn't able to get anybody. You know, we think she was just trying to get directions.' She never reached her destination. For no apparent reason Megan was shot and died on the side of the highway. Nothing was taken from her car. Andrew: 'I don't think we will ever know details. But the details that matter are that she was a warm loving person who was shot and killed no doubt in what was a hijacking.' Strangely, on the same night - about thirty minutes earlier and only a few hundred metres away - Clifford Ranaka was attacked by three armed men while [he had] broken down on the side of the of the road.<<