The good news is the five African cities ranked higher than Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (118), Beijing, China (120) and Moscow, Russia (167).
Durban has outperformed Johannesburg and Cape Town in a list of the cities with the best quality of life.Human-resources consultancy Mercer has released its 2019 list of cities with the best quality of life.
These include housing, political stability, crime, leisure, air pollution, infrastructure, the health system, education and the economy. In second place was Zurich, followed in joint third place by Munich, Vancouver and Auckland, New Zealand.SA PERFORMANCESadly, neither Johannesburg, Cape Town or Durban made it into the top 50 of Mercer's survey.It was followed by Cape Town in 95th, and Johannesburg in 96th place.
The only other African city to make in into the top 100 of the list was Victoria in the Seychelles, which ranked in 98th place.
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