![]() ![]() As the New York Times reported in March, the May 2018 takeover of a Stellenbosch vineyard owned by Stefan Smit-a white farmer-by black residents from the nearby Kayamandi township exemplifies the racial tensions that still divide the country, even decades after the end of apartheid.įurther west, the demographics of the Cape Flats remain similar to those in Kayamandi, with 2.5 million people living mostly in squalor. Struggles over land in South Africa’s wine areas have been at the center of controversy recently. Discriminatory practices during that time designated many urban areas as “white only,” forcing black and “coloured” (the South African term for someone of mixed race) South Africans into the Cape Flats. These shanty villages, called townships, were formed during apartheid, the system of racial segregation that was the formal policy of the South Africa government from 1948 to 1994. While the mighty sandstone formation is geologically integral to South African wine, the vineyards on this slope loom over a patchwork of poverty-ridden settlements on the Cape Flats. The vines planted on the western slopes of Helderberg Mountain face toward Cape Town and mark the beginning of Stellenbosch and the manicured Cape Winelands of South Africa. ![]()
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