crazy pedestrians in cape town

We have wended our way down the Garden Route (we stayed in the Wilderness and visited George, Nature's Valley, Knysna and Plettenberg Bay). We got into Cape Town late yesterday afternoon and on our trip into town discovered that the rumours of the nutty drivers had some foundation. A chap in a delivery van drove like a complete maniac on the highway, tried to write us off, and then further down the road cut off a 4x4, and dust and stones flew with mad swerving across two lanes. You really need to be alert when you drive here. The other thing that has struck us again and again is the number of pedestrians that just wander across the HIGHWAY ! what are they thinking ? People get killed on highways every day, why are they crossing something that's 3 lines wide, with moving hazards coming at you at 120 + km's per hour. It's just lunacy.