I will never abandon her, I will always come here. In fact our relationship is strengthened because of what has happened

Sindy, black customer

Some white people apparently felt she was bringing too many black customers into the neighbourhood.

Four weeks ago Wanda Stofburg was attacked outside her house.

"He put his hand down while he was hitting me in my face, in my eyes and my lip and my mouth and swearing at me and telling me there's no place for a kaffir lover like me in George," she said.

And then he used a sharp instrument to carve a "K" onto her chest. "K" denoting an abusive term for black people. Her body, marked with his hatred.

Black-white divide

Wanda is now frightened. Since then she has received hate mail and her walls have been daubed with graffiti. Her black customers are rallying round.

One of them, Sindy, said: "I will never abandon her, I will always come here, in fact our relationship is strengthened because of what has happened".

On the streets of George white people also condemn the attack, but some still prefer to keep their distance from other communities.

An old white man said: "I want to know what is wrong with being with my own people, and living with my own people in my own community. Do you understand?"

Revulsion at the attack on Wanda Stofburg has bought hundreds of people onto the streets of George.

Two-way racism

But although this is an anti-racism march, nearly every single person I can see is black.

In small towns like George South Africa's different races are still leading very separate lives.

"It is even getting worse, its escalating," one of the marchers said.

There are also blacks who are also racist - we cannot run away from that as well

Reverend Ngesi

"We are really suffering under racism, here in the southern Cape, we as non-whites, this is the only way we can show whites we don't agree with the way they are treating our people," another added.

But the past few years have also seen tensions within the black population, as resentment grows over an influx of immigrants from the rest of the continent.

Reverend Nkosinathi Ngesi, who helped to organise the march, said: "It is not directed particularly against whites."

"There are also blacks who are also racist - we cannot run away from that as well. So we are addressing the two sides of the story here."

Apartheid isolated all South Africans, it allowed and encouraged racist beliefs to harden over decades.

The process of changing people's minds is going to go on for years to come.