Am I wrong to suspect the tragedy was due to use of recreational drugs?

Heavy drinking and banned steroids, according to the media.

I am speculating but being permitted to have a firearm may also not have helped the poor girl's chances of surviving...

If she kept one the bathroom tiles and had a secret stash. South Africa really is an odd place Wyot.

I have been several times, Port Elizabeth is beautiful and designer shops are at rock bottom prices. Not at rip off prices in the UK or the rest of Europe.

The police in S.A make Americans look slim.

Apartheid is still there and always will be. The media showing Mandella like some sort of hero is bollocks.
In one hotel window you will the beauty, go look out at another window from the same hotel. I saw the slums and muggins. From another guests hotel.

Mossel Bay is very safe and tourist friendly.

There is a South African couple who to my local from they are glad to be out of South Africa they are from originally Rustenburg.

The couple and their friends were robbed and the couple hinted rape by black racists.

Steriods do cause roid rage, cannabis seems harmless but heavy users late in life get all sorts of mental problems, I have personally encountered. Like alkies they get violent if they don't their cash for a spliff.