Multiculturalism lies at the heart of South Africa’s modern reinvention, and colour runs through its veins. In 1994 – the year that delivered democracy to South Africans of every ethnicity – Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela referred to their homeland as a Rainbow Nation, as a metaphor for unity and peace. Almost three decades on, the optimistic, effusive nickname has stuck.
Explore at least a few of South Africa’s nine provinces – the largely Afrikaans-speaking west, the Xhosa and Zulu regions of the south-east, the Tswana and Sotho districts further north – and you’ll quickly
