Cape Town - South Africa's City of Contradictions (58/59)

Cape Town - South Africa's City of Contradictions (58/59)

Cape Town is a popular tourist destination for Europeans and its attractions are undeniable, but with a history as dark as South Africa's, there is no avoiding the social inequalities and glaring contradictions that are ever present in one of South Africa's most beautiful cities.

Cape Town is a popular tourist destination for Europeans, particularly in their winter when spring has already arrived to the Cape. Most tourists come here to enjoy its natural environment. High mountains run to white beaches in the Cape region. And there is a lot of wildlife to watch - penguins share the beaches with people and whales are often spotted swimming quite close to the coast.
But it is very much a city of contradictions and its less beautiful side is never far away. The film looks at how the city has developed now, more than 20 years after the end of apartheid. Are blacks, coloreds and whites really living together in communities or are they just co-existing in parallel societies? Cape Town is a particularly good yard stick for the development of South Africa, because the Cape region was always the African Riviera and Cape Town was considered the whitest city in South Africa, this despite the fact that whites are and were always in the minority here, while the people termed blacks and coloreds form the largest population group. They live in the townships, huge ghettos on the edge of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

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