He played write the Kruger National Park,when I returned for the umpteenth time last 24 February, of its tall grasses in the rainy season that cloud everything green, the unexpected encounter again with a leopard in the limits of time, I like what one of the most beautiful places that exist in Africa and who is criticized for tourism, it is, and beauty is denied on the grounds of being accessible. It's like saying the Colosseum, Iguazu Falls or Chichen Itza worth not having too much cement around and too many cars and cameras. Why is there so much concrete, cars and cameras? Another thing is that it is obvious that this removes charm to places, feel the charm of the first last to arrive at that site.
Kruger played about until I received a message from a South African friend told me: "Hi Javier, I have read your article in The World in which you say that South Africa is the most violent country in the world. It is not true, I think you should read this article ... "And he recommended an article in the Huffington Post in which a blogger, Amanda Willard, wondered "why the media are killing the image of South Africa?
Hi Javier, I have read your article in The World in which you say that South Africa is the most violent country in the world. It is not true
Willard's article is flawed in some respects or at least drink from sources other than mine. South Africa, that is what I said, is on the global podium many crime categories. What is, certainly, because in the township violence levels soar. Ie, It is in the ghettos where death ferments in the eyes of victims and executioners. Misery seasoned with alcohol, drugs and fog, that the future is opaque to those born in the back ass of the world.
Yet, there's a part of my friend's comment makes me think. Already wrote in 2011 something like and two years later I'm still in doubt. My work as a correspondent condemns these countries to have killed and scams. I can not, not published, send a notice to be called "a week ago in South Africa do not violate anyone". Nor imagine three columns or cover of the news website explains that "Mozambique's Ministry of Labour is not corrupt", accompanied by a detailed report which reveals that deviated dollar budget for "youth training".
My work as a correspondent condemns these countries to have killed and scams
But, is easily salable and accounting in South Africa are violated daily or fifty women in Mozambique cooperation money is spent on tiling bathrooms official residences. That's my job, the way he understood from siempre a critical aspect. I as a journalist I feel obliged to report what others can not (this is a feeling that there Guild itself). Now, that creates a distorted picture of some places that may seem tiled to the viscera without time or space to contemplate the new hospitals canvas or the markets that are given the words.
Therefore, the trouble is that in the news yet also creates a false, without shades, that generates images hanging from the big headlines. I remember in 2011 I was called to interview for a program of Punto Radio. After talking for almost an hour from South Africa I questioned the safety of a solo trip. I said that South Africa was an easy country to travel alone. You can rent a car, get around and you just have to have some view of where you get, and in all places where there is asphalt after shoulder, no hunger. "He has a reputation as dangerous, but not both. They are more general figures than a palpable reality. Deaths occur at specific sites. Of course there is special care to tread, but without being afraid that's all. A year and a half me I have not spent. The South Africans are lovely ", concluded.
We must have some view of where you get, and in all places where there is asphalt after shoulder, no hunger
Then, cut and the next day I sent the link to hear the interview. Out of curiosity I kept hearing after finishing my speech and I heard a French accent guest, I remember that, said: "Javier speaks as an adventurer, but it is true what they say. I have a friend who has been in Johannesburg and explained that you can not leave the hotel or shopping centers. There robbery and shooting. Nobody moves to South Africa without protection and I feel obliged to recommend to our listeners who do not ". Been to South Africa?, the interviewer asked the Spanish-French. "One night for a stopover on a flight in Johannesburg", he replied, "But my friend has been there several times".
Who knows, perhaps the French friend is right or maybe I have to start sending more proposals that talk again today have many more people than was stolen in South Africa helped to? Something I certify that each day passes overwhelmingly in favor of the good. World, in any corner, with a world of difference, There are many more good than bad.
PD. The photo is taken in Pilgrim's Rest, at the gas station was prettier than ever. Another post pending
