So while I wrote the post below a gunshot was fired right outside my house. It sounded as if the gunman were standing in the street right outside my gate when the shot went off.
I did something I wouldn’t normally do. I called the cops. I suppose if I heard someone coming through the gate or breaking into the house or multiple shots I’d definitely call the police but not for one random gunshot.
I dialled 112 on my cell phone and pushed ’1′ for life-threatening emergency. They put me through 10111, the “Flying Squad” who contacted the local police station. The police officers were outside my gate in 2-3 minutes. And they didn’t just send one car, there were 3 or 4 cars outside my house with 2 or 3 officers per car making sure that the streets were safe again.
Their response was incredibly impressive and even with all the crime recently affecting people close to me (I’ll try and post the next story tomorrow) they managed to restore a feeling a security with their presence.
I find it interesting that mention the quickness and responce time of the police. I fear you miss the point with that. The time and force in which they reply to such call outs, reflects more clearly the state of the general atmosphere, the danger that is out there.
I for one, chose to leave SA for greener pastures. Well, i suppose different pastures. Does this action make me a less patriotic South African? Would you consider that i am running away from the issues, that i should stick around and try to help improve the current state.
I for one think that i have possibley added positively to the current politcal climate. I am not being forced out of a postion to have it taken up by a person of possible less education, but freely giving it. I may be,in a later stage of my life, investing forgein money and injecting it into the South African economy. I am ensuring that myself and my future family will not be part of the stastics that make up the newpaper headlines.
I know this all sound very negitive. I love South Africa, and there are things which no other country in the world has that we do but it , at least for now, is not worth the risk that you take every day.
just a short reply to a well written blog.
Fred
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