When you visit Cape Town it is useful to know apartheid has been abolished because you might not notice immediately. The beachfront neighbourhoods remain almost all-white. The "Coloured" and black Cape Flats are outside of town, separated from the whites by highways and golf courses. Other blacks live in Langa township. "There are ghettoes in other parts of the world," protests Essop Pahad, minister in the office of President Thabo Mbeki. But he admits: "South Africa is an extreme case because of the legacy of apartheid."
It is hard, in fact, to think of a more divided country than the new South Africa. Apartheid managed to make separate peoples of whites, blacks, "Coloureds" (those of mixed race) and Indians. They have different maps of the country in their heads, die at different ages and play different sports.
