Abstract
Stowaway subcultures have existed in the Tanzanian port cities of Dar es Salaam and Tanga since the mid-1970s, from which they spread to the major ports of Mombasa, Lamu and as far north as Djibouti. Any southwards spread of this subculture was blocked by civil war in Mozambique and racial apartheid in South Africa, but by the mid-1990s these obstacles had fallen away, and young Tanzanian stowaways – men in their late teens and twenties – migrated to South Africa in significant numbers, establishing communities on the fringes of all the major port cities. The presence of the Beachboys provides an extraordinary bridge between Cape Town's present and its past, and simultaneously challenges predominant representations of the city as well as understandings of how city space is used and what politics are imbued in roads, railways and vacant lots.
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