A small taste of the security measures the outside world fears, and various photos of entrances to Estates around the Sandton (pronounced Santon) area . . .

Maybe I'll edit this (and lots of other entries) later.

This is a very different environment to anything I've ever visited or lived in before. Perhaps not surprising, but the reality of actually being somewhere you've (only) heard about so much over many years is difficult to describe -

not because the vocabulary eludes me, but because I've only just arrived {one week at the time of writing} and it's already very evident that an 'outsider' is inevitably going to find it very difficult, or even frustratingly elusive to describe this place with anything approaching accurate.

I'll leave it at that for now, and edit as the trip unfolds . . .

The entrance to the estate where Sonja Raymond lives, on Grunberger

Shangri-La estate right opposite the entrance to the hotel where I'm billeted in Morningside, Sandton, Johannesburg - the cars are in the evening queue.

Taken from further up the road, but the same queue! Note the visible high wall on the left with the wire on the top {don't know how much/many of these are electrified!}