This may be the new South Africa, but you can still see exactly where the lines are drawn. I live in a house towards the east side of the white town in the street with most recorded house break-ins in the area. I am told that this is because the road leads directly to the black town and informal settlements. I rather like it because of this. I can watch the black hawkers, peddlers, gardeners and maids going to work in the morning just before I have my African coffee.
Security is very big business in South Africa.
It has only been seven years since black South Africans got the freedom to live where they want. It will be another 20 before they get to work where they want. However, this is the Eastern Cape and there are few violent assaults here in urban areas. Unlike Johannesburg, people here aren't educated or rich enough to shoot you. If a person begs on the street here, nine times out of ten they ask for food.