In Johannesburg, A Tale of Two Chinatowns

The Chinese have been present in Africa since the 1600s, many carving out a living as laborers and business owners. The continent’s largest community of Chinese immigrants and their descendants are now in South Africa where families remember how they escaped poverty in their homeland and persevered in the face discrimination to become a key part of South Africa’s “rainbow nation.” Kate Bartlett reports from Johannesburg. Videographer: Zaheer Cassim