Michael Brown’s death and other cases like this sparked debate about whether America has truly shaken off its racially segregated past. Similar questions can be asked half a world away by another country with a segregated history. It’s been 20 years since apartheid was outlawed in South Africa, but true integration has been slow to come in many areas, including Johannesburg. CCTV America’s Guy Henderson reports.

The plan to remold Johannesburg begins on the T3 bus route. This plan, aiming to encourage cross-neighborhood travel, should theoretically help close the geographical gaps that are still so prevalent here.

Herman Pienaar is the man behind this city’s latest project called Corridors of Freedom. He believes his team found a way to move populations long forced to live apart.

This plan will provide a much efficient and affordable commuter service. The grand vision is mostly just sketches now, but the idea is to build arteries between different demographic centers, along which people can choose to live whatever their color is.

However, twenty years’ of efforts of transform is preceded by more than a century of division. Bongani Mathebula Jamal is a tour guide and a walking encyclopedia of the city’s history. Bongani said that from the earliest days of the gold rush came development designed to separate.

There are enclaves of what some might be called successful integration. Maboneng precinct, for example, was a no-go zone a few years ago. Now private investment has attracted a youthful and multi-cultural crowd.

The pace of change must come faster. In Johannesburg, people know just how monumental the challenge is of undoing centuries of segregation.

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