Into the heart of poverty

South African women discard waste water and collect fresh water next to a canal in their shack settlement in Cape Town. Poverty tourism draws attention to the juxtaposition of affluent suburbs and neglected townships in South Africa. - EPA

A middle class family moves into an improverished township to experience a different culture.

APRIL Matlala, who lost most of his home to a fire three years ago, got a big surprise when he saw who was moving into the shack next door. The new residents of Mamelodi, an impoverished township near Pretoria in South Africa, were young, middle-class and white.