Johannesburg’s Brickfields inner-city housing development is a showpiece for a country that prides itself on enlightened social policies. Located at the foot of the city’s Nelson Mandela Bridge, it comprises three clusters of tidy three- and four-storey walk-ups and nine-storey tower blocks, built around inviting courtyards.

Brickfields was built with the help of a state subsidy and 30 per cent of flats are set aside for poor tenants who pay rents 20 per cent below the market rate. Its residents are both blue- and white-collar workers and mostly – but not exclusively – black, making it a model of post-apartheid integration.