Day 4: Bus tour around the coast

The coast around Cape Town showcases a mix of high wealth and abject poverty. Hout Bay is one of the picturesque harbours around Cape Town where many of the rich live. But ironically, nearby is a township, Imizamo Yethu, where the poor and destitute blacks subsist. In complete contrast to the luxury villas and apartments overlooking the water, the township is squallid and makeshift. Yet it is home to 16,000 blacks packed into pathetic houses built of bits of sheetmetal and timber. During apartheid, some of the black suburbs near the city were razed to the ground, and the poor were moved to townships outside the city. District 6 is one such place, close to the centre of Cape Town, but it is now just grass slopes where the houses of thousands of families once stood. It is left as a reminder of the apartheid era.

Back in the city, we see a shop called, "Africa Women's Trading Centre". I ask Debbie whether it might be possible to trade an Australian woman for an African woman there. Doesn't go down that well.

We see a couple of Aussie guys who have coloured their hair in green and gold. I ask Debbie if I should do the same. Like I go into a hairdresser and ask, "Do you do colours?" And he says, "In this city, we do all nationalities."