Ignoring advice from his white friends, and to the bemusement of his black friends, Steven Otter throws caution to the wind and moves into Khayelitsha, a black township outside Cape Town.

Steven Otter, the third of four siblings, was born in Johannesburg in 1973 and grew up and completed his schooling in Uitenhage, in the Eastern Cape. He lived in Khayelitsha for 11 months in 2001 and 5 months in 2006. Khayelitsha covers his journey into a black township notorious amongst outsiders as the dwelling place of poverty, disease and crime. What he finds in Khayelitsha, which means New Home in Xhosa, is an often humorous display of contradictions, with happiness, compassion and ubuntu thriving side-by-side with tsotsis, HIV/Aids and poverty.