The center of South Africa's largest city, Cape Town, is a modern grid of coffee shops, malls, and tree-lined streets. Whites live in houses with well-manicured gardens and tall fences. Fifteen miles outside the city, blacks live in clusters of tin shacks set on what was once miles of endless sand dunes.
One of the reasons for this stark racial divide is the Group Areas Act, a pillar of apartheid that determined where one could live based on skin color. The act was abolished in 1986, but its legacy remains.
Ten years after Nelson Mandela was voted president in South Africa's first-ever open and democratic election, it remains difficult to imagine a future without the townships and their shacks. In fact, more spring up every day as people flee rural areas and neighboring countries to find work in the cities.
Around the world, the barriers are increasing between rich and poor. In South Africa, you can see it in black and white.
Many of Sue Johnson's photographs from this story are for sale on her Website.
All proceeds go to the residents of Khayelitsha.
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