Will give you the benefit of the doubt, Ndumiso, and assume you do believe that one incident from an American paper equates to crime being a comparable issue over there. So, fair enough, lets compare ourselves to America. The last stats indicated that roughly 20 000 people are murdered in SA annually. These figures were conservative, and morgue figures apparently put the number at around 30 000. In America 16 000 people are murdered every year. Now taking into account the population of the USA is several times that of SA, you are statistically several times more likely to be murdered in SA than in America. You can't tell me that's not a good reason to leave.