It's sad what the narrative really is on this issue .This world is stupid. A while ago that girl Umoren or whatever her name is - the girl dt wanted a job but was raped and killed. There was uproar everywhere. Men and women were out there condemning the guy because he did a vile thing to murder the girl. Later on it was revealed(I stand corrected but that's what I read) that the girl was informed about the nature of the job that she will be some sort of a secretary for a weed/drug farm and she agreed and went to take the job- At that point she knew that there was a risk yet she went. She would have known that nothing good can come from working in a weed farm and that it is illegal which makes it morally wrong but she went and got killed. When she died nobody questioned why she still went there after being told that it will be a weed farm(which was not even true because there was no farm). But such a thing would have been red flag enough for her not to go but she went. Now a man was violently murdered in cold blood. Mind you the murderer of Umoren said they had a fight over sex and he hit her with stabilizer or what not(this means he didn't set out to kill her-only to rape her). But here is a girl that stabbed a man multiple times and confirmed him to be dead or near death and still was so vile as to go to an ATM to withdraw his money after the dastardly act but we have people focusing on the fact that he cheated and he got what he deserved. It's a man now killed by a girl it's okay, a guy killls a girl and there's war. And yet we have people asking for equality. What's equal about these type of views

How did this make front-page

kizonero:


You have spoken well bro. Is that your thread still existing? I love to follow such thread to learn about the place I will like to visit in the future. Pls which side is safe for first timers in joburg. And what is the accommodation like.

I've only visited JoBurg. I didn't stay there so I can't say what's what but the story here in Cape Town is most people are migrating here cos our boys dn go cast JoBurg and it's nowhere near as safe as CPT

But truly there are areas they call locations usually like ghetto areas. U go there and u wud surely suffer. There's a particular warning around Yanga on the N2 Expressway-"Danger Zone, Do Not Stop On The Freeway" I think that's warning enough

OdogwuEkeke:
LOL

Bro I still won't advise you against moving. Like the other guy rightly pointed out,nowhere is truly safe.
Be vigilant and be careful. You will enjoy the place without having to move at night and even if you wanted to move at night if you have a car you're good to go because where would you possibly go if not clubbing and all that. I go out at night but I know where to go to.
In my opinion I believe Nigeria would have been way worse had the youths not been focused on cybercrime so people really don't have time for petty crimes as much as these ones do. Some of the problems nigerians face here we cause for ourselves. It's hard for a Nigerian to be in a place and lie low and live his life, we nigerians like to show ourselves.

I opened a trade talking about my experience in cape town and I was going to mention the fact that we nigerians are not generally liked and anyone can get robbed anywhere and you have to have knowledge of where is safe to go and where is not. Some people derailed the thread because they had other threads talking about the beauty of South Africa posting stock pictures anyone can find with proper research on tht internet. Someone asked about their women and I spoke about how most of them within the place I stayed at had Nigerian boyfriends and that you don't need to spend time toasting and toasting like you would do in Nigeria. You just had to be fun and be entertaining and this was my honest observation. They came at me saying I am posting lies and spoiling the image of the country.
To be honest SA, Cape Town especially is a very lovely place to live in but you must follow rules,Nigeria is not good we know but like one of my friend who has been here for long said " the average south african doesn't really think before doing you harm over something really petty". A Nigerian thief may look at you and view the pros and cons of attempting to rob you,he would think about if it would be worth it or not and if he would escape without trouble. But the people here would do you dirty if they feel like. They are like people that are high on weed that don't really think about repercussions when they do stuff. Don't get me wrong the people in offices and stores are really nice but it's the everyday people you meet on the street that you need to worry about. The whites don't really have anybody's time,they don't particularly hate but they really do not care if you live or die. In terms of infrastructure and beauty I will be honest beauty alone cape town has such natural beauty that would beat most places in US and Europe. There are no jobs here but I see that most people here are undocumented so your chances would just move to zero. If you follow rules and tailor your movements you will enjoy the improved standard of living.

lymelyte:
go to long street, you will find girls there.. If you club, go to soho and hook up, the girls dere can give u for free depend on how u portray ur self

Lol...open tinder. Change your location go Khayelitsha side. Thank me later

TMKSouth and JaceBlaze, you lot must be really pained. I have only spoken from my own experiences. I've not been everywhere, I'm not even 30% round Cape Town. I only spoke from the little experiences so far and I would update accordingly if things appeared different in the future with more meetings with people.
No one asked you to be here,you should have remained on your own thread.
The thread was in no way to insult South Africa or South Africans as a whole.
Most of the shit I've posted about happens in Nigeria too and there's too much to love about Cape Town as a whole.
From what I've seen I won't trade Cape Town for many US cities.
You both are just paranoid. You just being on the defensive for nothing.

TMKsouth:


Wow. So Cape Town has 4.6 million residents. If we estimate half of that are female it leaves us with 2.3 million women. When we deduct old and middle-aged women and babies from the equation we are left with perhaps 1.3 million eligible ladies in Cape Town.

So almost every one of them has a Nigerian boyfriend?

You must think this is a math class

Well almost every Cape Town girl has a Nigerian boyfriend. They look at us like spenders tho. Some don't mind him having other people as girl friends that they even know. But I would say the girls like nigerians. Another thing is most girls above 20-22 have atleeast one child

Joziboi:


So all black SA women are debased to this level of "giving it up for booze" and white girls (I guess) by your few weeks experience in the city are held to a higher standard? nice one

Don’t put words in my mouth. When people say things about us Nigerians and crime, it doesn’t even mean the majority of Nigerians are criminals. Same way it doesn’t mean all of them are like that but from my experience that is what I have seen. Ignoring blacks by a whites girl isn’t really a higher standard. I am only telling the story based on my own experience. If you have your own experience share yours and don’t come attack me over my opinion.

Goodman247:
Tell us about your adventures, thier ladies, accommodation, cost of living and jobs

As per women, they like Nigerians the girls. You really don’t need money to get a girl here. Just have booze and enjoyment at home as well as bolt fare. They hardly say no to a meet up. Don’t bother with the white girls, you don’t even exist to them.
Accommodation is not cheap depending on where you say.
Jobs for a foreigner is never easy anywhere, even less here

Gordon's Bay

Gordon Bay

Gordon's Bay

I'm not an expert in these things so videos may be choppy and all but like I said these are real snaps not what we usually see on here that are pictures from Google

Okay after now I'll be posting pictures and videos of places I have been. In between I'll share some everyday experiences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjrSaEOCsGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eISqQEEMoI

Small advice be mindful of your luggage,don't carry excess luggage it would stress you with airport security. They may even send you back even after being stamped in if they feel like your luggage is too much for your duration of stay. There's really no need to carry much luggage because you would likely discard most of your clothes when you get here. There are also policemen in the airport at Johannesburg so be careful with your movements and dealings around the airport.
We arrived Cape Town 9:15 am. Cape Town airport has to be one of the most difficult airports to land at because there are many mountains and then the pilot has to descend into a cloud layer with almost no visibility.

The following morning by 7 a.m, We were ready to leave to board a flight to Cape Town. I won't be doing any justice if I failed to mention a certain staff of flysafair .
We had carried access logic luggage. Flysafair has a strict luggage policy and all three of us had defaulted because we were carrying more luggage than they would allow. I was surprised to find this certain guy rather than charge us the fee for the extra going by the actual calculations of our excess luggage we had to pay an extra R2000. I had seen this on their website and found that on normal grounds that was what we had to pay so the guy wasn't inflating it in anyway. Rather than charge is for this extra I saw this guy brainstorming ways to help us reduce how much we were to pay. It's not like he had ideas but he was stressing his head thinking up ways. He asked us to add one bag to another bag like that which would have made the other bag weigh much more. We ended up making 4 luggages turn into 2. Rather than weigh it again and assign a new value he gave me the same slip as though I was paying for the first weight recording when as at then the weight had doubled. He then asked us to take our backpack and our other echolac boxes into the plane and they would qualify as hand luggage. Eventually what would have cost us R2000 cost us R750. We also didn't know our boarding gate, the guy then left his post because at the time it was early and people were few and he had a colleague observe his desk and he walked a very long distance to take us to our boarding gate and he didn't ask a dime from us. Not to rubbish Nigeria for another man's land but in Nigeria even places I wasn't defaulting everyone was out to collect money and extort money for just about anything. Even the people that stand by the toilet wn rag u money.

There are no photos from Johannesburg since we arrived very late and left very early 7am the following morning.

The flight from Nairobi to Johannesburg was slated for 5:50pm Kenyan time. I had a particular interest in this flight because the plane was changed in the morning of the flight. As an aviation enthusiast I diligently went online to find that the equipment was changed initially from a Boeing 737–8 to an Embraer E190,less sophisticated and not fancy at all. I tired to find the reason for this change but I could not. The said plane had already been to Johannesburg very early,then to Douala then to Yaounde and back to Nairobi. I figured maybe because of the number of people travelling weren't much.
We boarded the plane and took off in an akward manner.
He feel like the aircraft was banking too right when we were trying to gain altitude. A bit of a scare there and the flight particularly wasn't smooth because I already had my reservations about the plane but we finally arrived Johannesburg 9:05pm SA time. The airport also had WiFi to connect to. They took our covid-19 forms that were shared in flight on arrival. We went straight to immigration and got our passport stamped in. I could also see that some people were being taken to be sent back. This people here are no joke. Also mind the amount of luggage you carry especially if you're on a visit visa, someone almost got sent back after he was already stamped in for his amount of luggage by airport security. After the security checks and all we went straight to the waiting area and wow Johannesburg airport is massive. When I say massive I mean very very big. By the time we got to domestic there were no more flights to cape town so we slept at Nandos until the following morning. Nandos is a fast food at the airport. They were already closed so we helped ourselves on their sofa

As you see the food you'd be tempted to think it taste as good as it looks but no, it's the opposite.
On this particular day there were many soldiers. Maybe they were traveling to. They should be up to 100 that day.

There's free WiFi at the airport for you to connect to and fill the COVID form. You can use the WiFi for as long as you're there. Most of the food places at the airport do not close they just change shifts. Sleeping was very uncomfortable as expected because we had to sleep at the airport. You either sleep at the chairs they kept for transiting travelers or you buy food and probably sleep where you buy food. They sell stuff in USD most of it not very nice compared to our own food. We stayed there until very late the following day when the next flight was scheduled.

The trip from Lagos to Nairobi (to connect to Johannesburg) was pretty straight forward except for Nigerian airport security.
There will be a lot of checks it's best to come with money preferably change maybe 500 naira notes because you be settling here and settling there. Get your story straight before you travel and get your BTA on hand. Also make sure to have your hotel reservation it is very important.
I won't go over the visa application process because that's a little too personal and it changes from time to time.
Flight was for 12:30 p.m. Kenya airways Boeing 737 – 8 a very good aircraft very recent with flight data monitoring.
The flight was smooth and uneventful. Kenya airways serve very weird foods.
For personal reasons I will do my best not to include photos with people or myself but I will try to give you a vivid outlook on the entire journey.
Most of most of the uploads would be videos.
The flight landed 8 p.m Kenya time. We were made to scan a barcode and fill the online covid-19 form as well as present our negative covid-19 result.

Absa Bank HQ, Cape Town

Wynberg Park

Golan007:
Haven't seen any purpoted picture from SA - Cape Town particularly, that wasn't authentic.

Like I said bro, it's going to be alot of writing alot of pictures I need to know if people are actually interested in knowing.

Gordon's Bay

So I've been seeing posts on this platform, some sharing pictures of South Africa but I find most of them to not be real pictures. Just pictures you can find on the internet. I've recently moved here and I can document my entire travel as well as real pictures of what the place really looks like.
I will also talk about the cost of living, the general outlook, the people, issues and basically everything that comes to mind that's worth sharing.
I do not know if people will be interested in knowing so I'll begin based on the feedback I get from this thread.

internationalman:
You won't hear Scholes, Neville, Ferdinand and Owen blast him now because he's one of their own...

Black coaches can be professors in coaching school and still wouldn't land a job in high profile club.

But an English man will just retired from playing and maybe do apprentice for 6 months land a job...

There used to be one black referee in EPL but now not even a single linesman is black.

The problem with us blacks is that rather than fix ourselves to put us in a position to be considered we find something or someone else to blame.. Everything is not a case of black and white. Blacks should not playing the victim card in every situation. Work hard to get there,stop blaming whites. Racism is out there we know but everything is not a case of race.