The Wild Coast & Transkei

     The Wild Coast, as its name implies is rugged and restless, with abundant shipwrecks strewn along its isolated beaches. This is typically unspoiled rural South Africa, which is nearly left in time and chiefly untouched by the infrastructure of the rest of the country. This is because it was a black homeland within apartheid South Africa that was not deemed worthy of development. Today it remains a poor area dotted with villages of traditional mud and thatch huts. Cattle are grazed on the grasslands and the land is toiled by hand and oxen to provide a subsistence living.