Journalist, author and anti-apartheid campaigner Rian Malan , in the second of this new six-part series, wrestles with his country's troubled past and increasingly uncertain future as he takes a journey spanning South Africa. 
With its own police force and welfare service, South African Railways once represented the nerve centre of the apartheid state, but as a result of the political upheaval, the network is now crumbling. 
On his trip, Malan visits the torched remains of Mahatma Gandhi 's commune on the outskirts of Durban, and Johannesburg, a city with the highest murder rate in the world. His journey is completed in the Lost City, a luxurious fantasy world in Bophuthatswana, where life remains sweet for the white man with money. 

Michael Palin has travelled round the world In 80 days and then journeyed from North to South Pole - all in the cause of television journalism and entertainment. In contrast, a journey from Londonderry, in the north of Ireland, to Kerry in the south is a less frenetic trip. But it does fulfil Palin's love of travel.... and trains in particular.
"There is something about railways that makes life seem tantalisingly simple," he says. "it's a world In which choices are made for you, courses mapped out, paths already plotted, and the direction Is always forward."
On his journey Palin separates the myth from the reality about Irish rail travel, learns more about his Irish great-grandmother, and discovers that railways - and Ireland's train-spotters - are strictly non-sectarian. From Belfast he catches the "peace train", a service operated jointly by Northern Ireland Railways and Irish Rail, and travels to Dublin. Then it's Cork, the village of Buttevant, and a search for his roots.