The family did not want to return to Cape Town, she said, because of the high levels of crime and the need for high electric fences to protect themselves and their daughter.
Just down the road, William H. Frederick Jr., a landscape architect and a former nurseryman, fenced in 17 acres with a 10-foot-high electric fence.
The perimeter of this building is covered in razor wire, with sensors and cameras everywhere, and a high-tech electric fence.
They tend to see themselves as living in the shadow of violent crime, retreating behind high walls, electric fences and steel doors.
Red Location Museum is a very special piece of architecture that sits – without high walls, electric fences or armed response security guards – in one corner of New Brighton.
With 20,000 dollars you can buy six Kalishnikov AK-47 rifles (used), 100 plus feet of high voltage electric fencing, a dozen or so Claymore landmines, three pure bred Rottweilers, and one professional sniper, assuming you pay him minimum wage.
The high walls, electric fences, and private security guards surrounding South Africa's residences and businesses are as inherent to the country's landscape as Table Mountain is to Cape Town.
About two-thirds of the 700km+ route, featuring a 8m-high wall, electric fences, sniper towers and "buffer zones" up to 100m wide, is completed or under construction.
