NVDL: Received this interesting comment on my blog today in response to my post Jeremy Clarkson reckons Johannesburg is "the least frightening place on earth".
I might have admired this farcical spin job in the face of incontestable evidence to the contrary – if it wasn’t such a supercilious and callous slap in the face of all South African crime victims and their grieving families.
The absolutely ridiculous hypothesis in The Sunday Times column is that local citizens “falsely” project Johannesburg as dangerous – because they want to save lions from aids! This is about as convincing as Jacob Zuma saying healthy men cannot contract aids by sleeping with an infected woman. The supporting , if contradictory, theory in the above report is that all major world cities have a key symbol and Johannesburg is using crime “to pull in the tourists and the investors”.
Is this for real? Is his target audience sensible and sophisticated adults or a comedy club?
The writer uses sarcasm to boast about his armed escort tours throughout the city and then egotistically proclaims crime must be a fiction of the imagination because, after all, nothing happened to him!
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