As a South African I try to keep on top of what's happening back home and get occasional snippets from friends and family. Here's another
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1844616,00.html
I am not sdure if it is better or worse since I left in 1998- it is just different. The focus of crime turned from political to criminal a long time ago and it is getting worse - rule of law seems to have gone out of the window and the ANC government seems to have become as corrupt or more corrupt than the Nationalist government it replaced.