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Since the end of apartheid, these communities are no longer legally bound by racial restrictions ; but history, language, economics and ethnic politics still contribute to homogeneity of local areas.

So, for example, most residents of Mitchell's Plain likely still speak a locally-inflected version of Afrikaans, along with English and either they or their parents were designated as Coloured by apartheid ; most residents of Khayelitsha still speak Xhosa and English and either they or their parents were designated as Black by apartheid.

Nonetheless, some areas of the Cape Flats have an increasing diversity of residents, with Xhosa-speaking people an increasingly noticeable presence in some previously mainly Afrikaans-speaking areas.