>>Kinda gives you pause... a kindly, 50-something motherly accountant with her AK...

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>Most break-ins to private residences are not attackers "going in guns blazing". The most common form of house break in is that the attackers wait for you to open the gate on returning home and then run in behind you, gun or knife at your face, and then the shit happens. People get smacked around, sometimes much worse.
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second hand opinion, but I'd exchange sometimes with usually.
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>Many houses, especially in the Cape province, have no high walls, or no electric fence on top of the walls, or no armed security service. This is much more a Johannesburg phenomenon. I know several people living in the Cape and they have no security service, no alarms in their house, no weapons, no access controlled area.

True. But the climate in Capetown seems to be shifting more to the Joburg state of affairs - again second hand opinion, but source is a very good friend with biz/flats in Joburg and Capetown, having moved residency to Durban as his new wife lives there...
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