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littlemissconceptions:  Last week when I was in Cape Town, I mentioned to people who I was with, that I had had a much better time this round, than I had had on all other previous occasions visiting Cape Town. A large part of that ‘enjoyment’ is due to the fact that I was staying with my Xhosa friend Uviwe in a completely different part of Cape Town to ones that I had previously experienced: this time around I was staying in Seybrand Park close to Rondebosch east; Athlone side. On previous occasions when I was in Cape Town, I was staying in Rondebosch and would go to Obs, Long street or Camps Bay, I just saw one type of people, and it really bothered me coz up here in Joburg, you see everyone from every background or culture. Homogeneity bugs me. Anyways, back to the conversation. I mentioned this to the people I was with; that I don’t/didnt like Cape Town, and they were shocked : “How can you not like Cape Town?? It’s beautiful!”. No doubt, Cape Town is visually stunning, the natural environment is beautiful, but there’s one thing missing for me. I mentioned to the people who I was talking to, that I didnt like enjoying myself in Cape Town, because I found Cape Town to be racist compared to Johannesburg - V and I had walked into a club called Jade on our first night, looked around, and said to each other at the same time “where are all the black people??”. The lady whom I was talking to (a South African Coloured lady who had been married to a white German guy, and who had to move out of South Africa for a while because her family was unacceptable)  corrected me and said that Cape Town is not racist, it’s segregated. I have spent the whole week trying to decipher that statement: “It’s not racist, it’s segregated” and I’m trying to understand if there’s a difference? I still don’t know. Although a lot has changed in Cape Town, geographical distance and class continue to perpetuate a separation that should have been done away with. I’m not naive enough to think it doesn’t happen in Joburg; the geography of the city was designed to keep people separated but I personally find Joburg a lot more integrated than anywhere else. Maybe Gauteng is an exceptional province because another friend of mine was telling me how he had had similar racist experiences in Port Elizabeth. I don’t know. A lot of people don’t even realise that there is segregation. A lot of people don’t realise that the segregation is wrong. And if they’re unconscious, or unaware of the fact that they’re living in such a “system”, then isn’t that unawareness worse than anything else?
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