![]() ![]() We have strong reasons to believe that our tour operator orchestrated our robbery. It has been almost a year, and we are still struggling with how to deal with this. I'd like to start by saying that I'm so sorry that you and your fellow tourists had to go through such an ordeal. If you have any suggestions on reporting this to spread awareness, please let me know. I just wanted to reach out to say that I agree with you. I don't want to target our specific tour company because I don't think it was their fault, but in my experience these township tours are not safe and police are not necessarily present where the tourists are. ![]() ![]() I've been looking to see if our robbery has made been made public news, but I haven't found anything. It seems this may happen much more often than a search through Google or TA might suggest. Afterward, Cape Town Tourism went out of their way to smooth things over and even delivered us a bottle of wine in person.Īfter this experience, reading news stories, and seeing this post, I am starting to believe that these incidents are being covered up or minimized to avoid hurting the township and tour companies. At the police station, they did not seem surprised at what happened, told the tour operators they should have arranged a police escort, and their attitude suggested to me that this is not uncommon. He threatened to shoot if we tried to hide anything. ![]() I was on a half-day tour with 7 other people, and we were in the shebeen when a man armed with a gun and another man entered and demanded that we hand over our bags wallets and phones. After being robbed at gunpoint last week on a township tour in Langa, I was looking for information about similar incidents and came across your post. ![]()
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