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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 0:49:25 GMT
... straight through Jo’burg CBD...! Not clever. At least the pickup truck was more inconspicuous than a shiny rental car might have been... My employer at the time moved out of the CBD to Sandton in the late 90's; as did many other corporates after employees began being mugged on their lunch breaks. One was shot for a load of sandwiches he was taking back to the office! Thankfully he survived. I visited the new office in 1998 to give a presentation and a SA colleague who had worked on the presentation with me acted as chauffeur and guide for the duration I was there. One evening he asked if there was anywhere I'd like to go and I said "Let's go to Hillbrow". Hillbrow in the 80's used to be a trendy but slightly dodgy area in central Jo'burg with lots of bars and music joints but he looked at me like I was completely nuts. "OK. but keep the windows up and doors locked." We spent less than 5 minutes driving around before getting our butts out of there and coming back to Sandton. To this day, I am convinced that the only reason we got out unharmed was that we were two guys in leather jackets driving a car commonly used as unmarked cop cars.
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Post by WDB on Jan 7, 2020 7:09:02 GMT
I stayed in the Sandton Hilton several times in 2007/8; you used to be able to walk a few hundred yards down the street to a good restaurant but I gather that even that short walk subsequently became perilous. Don’t know. I was last there in 2011 (and ate in the Bull Run and the even more impressive Butcher Shop In Mandela Square) and had no worries walking about, even in the evenings.
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