After clearing customs at the airport in Johannesburg I decided to stroll over to the tourist information desk to enquire about buses from Pretoria to Swaziland. The guy at the desk told me that the best way for me to reach Swaziland would be on a minibus taxi from Jo'burg as these leave more regularly. I'd been planning on avoiding Jo'burg at this stage as I was pretty freaked out by all the horror stories and I'd not been planning on using a minibus taxi either. I'd been thinking more along the lines of a Greyhound bus. All the same - I decided to go with the Jo'burg plan as there seemed to be no viable alternative. I took a taxi into Jo'burg. The driver was a friendly guy from Soweto who kept assuring me that
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