TRANSKEI South Africa | Is it SAFE?

[@mgebesibula7282]

Very beautiful 🥰 place

[@KinfolkTravels]

It is!

[@thebuffalooverlander]

Looking forward to visiting Coffee Bay Area next month too 👏👏

[@KinfolkTravels]

Hope you will have the best time!!

[@SatriaChannel_08]

The scenery is very beautiful... The beach is very charming....very mesmerizing... It's a place worth visiting on your travels...

[@KinfolkTravels]

Definitely agree, you won’t find many places in the world this beautiful, still true to its culture without a lot of tourists.

[@Cranklotus]

Yay subscribed, thanks for the videos. I was thinking about going to SA as a Westerner I'm unsure though. Is it friendly?

[@KinfolkTravels]

Hi!! Thank you for subscribing and watching 🤗 SA is amazing, safety depends on the area you choose to visit. If you plan on heading to the western cape like Cape Town, the Winelands, Stellenbosch, Hermanus, Langebaan and even more inland to the small towns like Montague and Tulbagh you’ll be safe. Just follow the normal precautions to not walk through dodgy alleys late at night etc. You’ll find a lot of Westners in the western cape and blend in. If you want to go more North it’s a bit of a different story and you have to be a bit more careful and choose your area with caution. There are wonderful places you can visit further north but I’d advise staying in a resort type style accommodation or game lodge. Where are you planning to go? Let me know if you have any more questions about SA 🇿🇦

[@Cranklotus]

@@KinfolkTravels Thanks for the help and info! I was actually thinking of visiting Transkei! But would probably stay in the western cape to be safe. I am not familiar with traveling internationally and glad to know that northern Africa is dangerous for Westerners. Is it a territorial thing? Drugs? Thank you again for the help. I had no idea on when, whenever the best time for warm weather is or to see something special.

[@KinfolkTravels]

@@Cranklotus if you want to go to the Transkei I’d recommend maybe doing it on an organized tour. The road is quite bad so you’d need a 4x4 type of vehicle and it’s safer to go with a few cars. Reason for parts being dangerous is due to various reasons such as severe poverty, corruption and discrimination. I’d recommend September to beginning of December or end of Feb to end of May. You’ll have beautiful weather but be outside the main peak season and able to find good accommodations. December and January is peak season and it can be quite hard finding accomoodation. Hope this helps :) Let me know if you need any more help :)

[@sean2144]

I remember visiting hole in the wall as a child, living in Umtata at the time. I would not go back😅

[@KinfolkTravels]

Hi Sean! Sjoe that must have been an experience living there. Yeah unfortunately Umtata did not feel very safe at all anymore :/

[@charlesmanning2266]

Is the Transkei safe? Silly question really - the Transkei is not just one place with one security profile. There are places I would sleep in the open and places I would not. There are places you will get robbed and places which are relatively safe. My favourite part of the Transkei is way in the North among the amaPondo. I certainly didn't feel safe among some of the Southern tribes.

[@KinfolkTravels]

That is so true, thank you for pointing that out. Like most places it is easy as a visitor generalize. Thank you for sharing this. The Northern part is that the area closer to KZN?

[@cccmmm1234]

@@KinfolkTravels Yes, I mean the areas around Msikaba. I felt a bit unsafe around Port St Johns. But that was a while ago. Things change.

[@KinfolkTravels]

Would you visit Transkei?

[@Deontjie]

I did. I went to the Fish River sun. The local tribe wanted the land on which this hotel was build. They said they did not receive their share of payment that the builder paid to the chief. The fought for thirty years to get control. They had control for 22 days, and then they thrashed and looted the place.

[@KinfolkTravels]

@@Deontjie Ai jai jai, its quite sad.

[@yuntakukai1002]

Former General Bantubonke Holomisa, commander of the now-defunct Transkei Defence Force (TDF), who led the December 30, 1987 coup that led to the elimination of the Bantustan and the ANC takeover of Transkei: "Quality was replaced by mediocrity. Education and its infrastructure have collapsed. Lawlessness, unemployment and lack of discipline is the ruling party’s motto. They open the country to drugs and warlords. Transkeians who used to own shops in the CBD [central business district] and in rural areas have been replaced by foreigners who don’t even pay taxes. GBV [gender-based violence] incidents are a daily occurrence. Environment is neglected. Hence, you see piles and piles of waste all over SA. Lastly, corruption is eating in the body politic of the ANC like a cancerous tumour. Yes, we have regressed as a nation. What a pity."

[@KinfolkTravels]

Thank you for sharing this. It is indeed sad to see such a beautiful part of the country and culture struggling so much. I remember how different the stories my mom told me are from when she visited many years ago compared to my recent experience.