re: What is the worst town you've ever been in?

I worked in Liberia and Monrovia was pretty bad, also worked in Iraq and many more countries in west africa but nothing compares to parts of South Africa. My wife and I were in a taxi driving from Cape Town to Stellenbosch in South Africa. Some locals were burning tires in the street both in front and behind us, they were given a heads up somehow we were driving through so we had to detour and drive straight through the slums of cape town. I didn't think we would make it out alive. Even the driver was scared.