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Between the ocean and the mountain, there's the unfinished highway.
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It is an odd-looking landmark in a beautiful city: sections of elevated road left suspended in mid-air when construction stopped in the 1970s.
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Four decades later, the hulking slabs of concrete still end in precipitous drops.
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A glossy brochure of Cape Town film locations proclaims the cut-off highway “truly special”, with “great city views”.
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It makes an edgy backdrop for TV commercials and fashion shoots, and looms over an episode of the science-fiction series “Black Mirror”.
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This may soon come to an end.
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The unfinished highway could become part of a plan to help overcome a legacy of apartheid—while also easing traffic jams.
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Like other South African cities, Cape Town remains largely segregated, despite the advent of democracy in 1994.
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Under apartheid, black and mixed-race people were forced to live in the worst areas, far away from the whites and from work.
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Today they are free to live where they choose, but mostly cannot afford to live in the old “white” areas.
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