On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, ...

We pulled up to a blue carpet next to the central train station in Cape Town, South Africa, where two butlers in blue vests and white gloves greeted us by name and unloaded our luggage before ...

where all that separated my wife and me from the empty lot on the other side was a security guard. “Blue Train,” I said, and the guard waved us through.