I left Melbourne with an enormous amount of excitement. I'd been counting down the days over the last few months until the World Cup and was as excited about watching the football as well as travelling around the rainbow nation. We've all heard about the scare stories, the high crime level, Johannesburg being the 'murder capital', the muggings and the general safety of tourists. I was about to find out first hand what South Africa was all about. The people I had ...