Cape Town is a cosmopolitan melting pot. A jumble of creeds, colours and languages, the city is a fusion where it’s impossible to define or establish what a true Capetonian “looks” like. A creation of trading empires – first Portuguese, then Dutch, then British – like most so-called imperial cities, it leans towards liberalism and as much tolerance as might have been possible under apartheid. Its Anglican archbishop, Desmond Tutu, acting in partnership with the secular Nelson Mandela, came to symbolise the morality of resistance. Economically, commercial places like this are rule-makers not rule-takers, adjusting and adapting to whatever history...