We visited a "typical" family in their home in Cape Town. These people actually were not typical because the wife was Indian from South Africa, had grown up in England and married a white British man. Their neighborhood was originally white working class and would have been forbidden to them a few years ago. Under apartheid, they could not have legally married.

The one-level house, about forty years old and spacious, was like a 1960s suburban tract house in the U.S. I had noticed that the city houses were on small lots with almost no yard, so I asked our hostess if I could see their yard. She took me out through the kitchen door to a small yard that was mostly paved except for a little building.

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