When I arrived in Africa, I realized how safe the motherland is, how comfortable and extravagant it is to walk in the center of the city and on the busy streets without worrying about it.
South Africa's notoriety of public security must be known from the news. Namibia is close to South Africa. During my years in Namibia, I have also witnessed the deterioration of the urban security situation due to the poor economic environment and high unemployment.
If you are a tourist coming to Africa, you may not feel too deeply about this. Because tourists are mainly active in scenic spots, uninhabited wilderness, scenic spots, and hotels are relatively safe places. The danger of public security in Africa lies in people, so the more people there are, the more dangerous places are, such as the city center, Chinatown, black people Not to mention districts and slums.
For the Chinese who work and do business in Africa, a more terrifying situation is robbery.
My home in Nami is a villa shared by several colleagues. They are all young people. They seem to be very poor (robbers who rob a house usually step on the spot in advance to assess their wealth), so they have not been robbed yet.
Our boss has experienced a burglary at home, and the robber also specifically asked the kids (little kids, referring to us) why they didn't come today, because we usually go to the boss for dinner - really doing our homework very seriously Robbers...
After the painful lesson of being robbed, the boss and we all moved to a community with the most complete security in the capital, with 24-hour security. Soon after we moved in, we saw a lot of Other Chinese who were robbed also moved into this community one after another, as if it was about to become half a Chinatown, but it felt less safe.
Why do African robbers love to rob Chinese? Many white and local bosses are also very wealthy. Why are there far fewer burglaries than Chinese people? This has to do with the stereotype that Chinese people like to save cash at home.
Many Chinese businessmen doing business in the local area generally only accept cash in order to avoid taxes. Don't accept transfers and credit cards, so sometimes large amounts of cash are hoarded at home, and sometimes the police and immigration bureaus raid and find millions of unidentified cash hidden in the home in hidden places such as the ceiling and under the floor, and they immediately appear on the front page of the newspaper. headlines.
When the robbers saw it, they felt that they would immediately realize their wealth and freedom by grabbing one vote.
The boss's friends, as well as most of the Chinese-funded enterprises, have experienced one or more robbery. A few vicious cases of murder and murder are usually bloody cases caused by personal grievances with local black employees.
What if you don't have a lot of cash in your home, and the robbers come to search and find nothing, or too little? There is a high probability of being beaten badly, which has been illustrated by a large number of real cases.
Therefore, in order to ensure personal safety, in addition to renting a house, installing an alarm, taking various security measures, and raising awareness of prevention, you must also prepare some cash at home, so that in case the robbers come in, you can gain a little and not be beaten violently. A meal of "actively being robbed of gold".
When I traveled in South Africa, considering the security situation in South Africa, I always carried "actively robbed gold" on my body. When I went in 2015, my friend told me that it was 2,000 rand (about RMB 800). When I went back in 2019, it was said that It has risen to 5,000 rand (about 2,000 yuan) in order not to be beaten.
