CAPE TOWN is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
We know this not only because we live in it, but because everyone else keeps telling us it is so, and urge tourists to visit it before they die. What they fail to mention is several Capetonians die here every day through violent crime.
To be fair, this doesn't only happen in Cape Town. Donal MacIntyre has travelled around the globe seeking out the World's Toughest Towns (Discovery, Sundays at 11pm). Two weeks ago he went to Paris and this Sunday it's Naples. It might be a bit of an ostrich attitude along with a healthy dose of Mother City patriotism, but when picking a South African city for this show, I'd have expected him to choose Johannesburg, like Louis Theroux did when he gave his security detail heart palpitations by insisting on exploring a Hillbrow tenement by night.
Then again, perhaps the point is to highlight cities that are …
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