Reggie Yates' Extreme South Africa
Reggie Yates travels to South Africa two decades after apartheid to look at how race and class have been reshuffled, not erased. In one strand he stays with poor white Afrikaner families living in caravan parks and informal settlements, people who grew up expecting privilege and now face poverty and resentment. In another he spends time with young black South Africans who have become wealthy and visible since the end of apartheid, tracking how money and status now cut across old racial lines in ways that unsettle everyone involved. Yates asks blunt questions in kitchens, shebeens, and gated houses, letting his subjects explain their own anger, guilt, and ambition rather than narrating conclusions over them. The series keeps its focus on individual lives rather than statistics, using them to show how a country built on strict racial hierarchy is sorting itself into new, messier categories of rich and poor. It is observational rather than argumentative, letting contradictions sit uncomfortably on screen.