This is a chilling reminder that you can be gunned down on your way to dinner in South Africa ... but it will be discounted over time.

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.