Reggie Yates’ Extreme South Africa

What is life in South Africa like more than twenty years after the first free and fully democratic elections? Reggie Yates explores three different locations to see how post-apartheid life has changed for white and black communities. Yates identifies unique aspects of South African culture and provides a rare glimpse into some of its most controversial sides through first-hand interviews and experiences.

Yates first looks at the impact of post-apartheid policies on a white squatter settlement in Coronation Park, Johannesburg, where white charities claim that 400,000 white South Africans live below the poverty line. Next, he visits a hospital in Cape Town where 80% of victims of assaults and stabbings — which can total up to a hundred in a single weekend — are under the age of 25. Finally, Yates meets a controversial multimillionaire megachurch leader in the black community, Prophet Mboro, to explore the rise of megachurches and their belief systems.