Hi all,

Not an African hunting question, but I thought this would be the best place to place this question. As many of you guys know I at work in an International Studies department at a university. One of my missions is to look for exchange programs for our students to go to, and also places that will send us students.

I'm currently working on programs in Europe, Asia and also Australia and maybe New Zealand as well.

One place we always have student interest in is Africa. Now as you can imagine we have to send students to a place that is both interesting and beneficial to study at, and also a place that is pretty safe for our students to go to... So this leaves us always wondering about Africa. So I wanted to ask our "old Africa hands" both residents and long-time visitors of Africa about good locations for our students to visit. Naturally I though Cape Town would be an interesting choice: cosmopolitan city, pretty good university, and pretty safe. Though there are good universities in Pretoria and Johannesburg, I've read much about high crime rates in those two cities.

Any further thoughts?

Thanks for helping out someone who is very ignorant of Africa!