Under apartheid, interracial marriage was illegal in South Africa. It's now legal, with South Africa calling itself the Rainbow Nation. But mixedrace couples say that they still face unique difficulties.

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In South Africa, interracial marriage was illegal under the brutal regime of apartheid. Now that mixed race marriage is legal with South Africa touting itself as a champion of diversity has the legacy of apartheid been overcome? Pam and Sebastian are an interracial South African couple, and say that they face unique challenges particularly due to entrenched beliefs about racial hierarchies, a hangover of apartheid. 'Being in an Indian family, my family expected me to waltz in a girlfriend that was Indian', explains Sebastian. 'My mum was not accepting of African women'. 'If you date a white person, it's like an achievement. Unfortunately, black people are always seen as inferior', says Pam. 'The racism has a new cousin called classism. The apartheid system never really went away, it just flipped. It's about colour and class now', says Ndaba, who is in a mixed race relationship.

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