Cape Town offers tourists a good number of attractions such as Table Mountain, the Waterfront, the Western Cape, a penguin colony and the city itself. Off-the-beaten-path activities include visits to townships where the majority of blacks still live (they were prohibited by apartheid from living in the cities in which they worked and now economic apartheid prohibits them from leaving the shanty towns bordering the cities).
The V&A Waterfront is a tourism development created out of an aging port facility that had pretty well fallen into disuse and disrepair for some 50 years. The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront is now a shopping and cultural center.
The penguin colony was visited during a day tour to the western cape where we also saw Kudu (a kind of deer), baboons and ostriches.