This explains why many of the houses are surrounded by electrical fences and the walls are posted with various security and warning signs. We finally arrived at a big house on the side of a large hill which overlooks downtown Pretoria. Even though it is in a predominantly white neighborhood, many of the houses still have those intimidating electrical fences. While having a quick lunch, we were told that the city is too dangerous to go wandering around, even though it looked pretty safe to us. Both Joy and I felt uneasy to hear that, since we didn't really want to stay in the house doing nothing.
Night life is barely non existent due to the high crime.
The unusual thing about this city is that there are SO MANY huge shopping malls. We must have driven past at least 4-5 of them on our way home, each within a close distance of each other. Since we had only two choices, stay home or go to the mall, we were forced to decide on the latter, hoping to kill a couple hours before the other party arrives from Seychelles. To us, it seemed like any other mall we've been to.