An educated guess, but its certainly of the right order.

No. Your misinterpreting what I say, purely to continue this pointless debate I would guess. SA differs from the other countries on Flic's route in many ways. If she's determined to get to the Cape then she obviously needs to cycle through SA, but she'll be a very experienced cyclist by then and easily capable of making that decision for herself. Whatever the situation is in SA, there's no reason to cancel a trip on the African continent because of one country. Personally I wouldn't cycle in SA and in fact I chose to turn round when in Namibia and head north again, but that wasn't because I was fearful of getting ***** or robbed, it was because in Namibia and was finding it hard to interact with the local people (due to my colour amongst other things) and (having been to SA before) I suspected it would be similar there.

No need to cycle through townships to get into South African cities. And as above, SA is only one country on the route and in no way representative of the African continent. In fact its the least African country in Africa IMO.