I’m not African, I’m white British but even I found it very tone-deaf of her to say “nobody asked me if I’m ok” whilst visiting countries that have a lot of health issues, sick children, poverty and disparity between male and female rights.
Even I thought she did make it all about herself. I’d love to one day visit South Africa but I don’t really feel I got to see much of it from the coverage of their visit.
You will love it.
I love it.
People here are friendly and caring and giving. Mostly.
People here dance and sing all the time. We have excellent food that is full of flavour because of our melting pot of cultures.
Everyone always goes to Cape Town but that is a small segment of South Africa. We have wild life and depending on where you go it can equally be untouched. There is tropics in Durban. Johannesburg is more flat and there are many places to go that teach you about South Africa culturally.
Mpumalamga is the more wild. It's where Kruger Park is and Northern Cape is more desert except when we have spring and it mostly turns to flowers. And the Eastern Cape is forests and mountains were we still have wild roaming Elephants.
We also have crime, mostly opportunistic crime though, and some people are just assholes who trade in racism to benefit themselves and their agenda. (Not old white men)
I would encourage people to come here. But just make sure you know where you are going and where you shouldn't go without a guide.