It must be one of the few places on Earth where on police advice you are told not to stop if you run someone over but to carry on and report it once you are well away from the scene of the accident. Basically if you DID stop and more specifically were white, you would have been hacked to a dog-meat like state within seconds.
That has a whiff of urban myth about it.
Having been to SA, and knowing others who live in SA, and others who’ve moved from SA, the country has problems, absolutely, but a lot of the ‘going to hell in a handcart’ stories come from bitter whites who are having a hard time adjusting to the fact that they can no longer boss around the black majority purely because of the colours of their respective skins.
IME, and as a very broad generalisation, the ‘blacks’ were friendly and welcoming, the ‘whites’ were diffident and rude. It’s an odd country, and I’m not sure I liked it