If you live in the Cape Town city bowl, you are not in the middle class in South Africa. You are in the richest 5% bracket. The middle class in SA earn between R8000 and R15,000 per month and can't afford houses in the city bowl.

Half of South Africans earn less than R4000/month. Our GDP per capita is R7000/month.

South Africans need to stop watching American TV and comparing themselves to the middle classes in the developed world. If you're living a life comparable to the middle classes in the US/Europe then you are a wealthy person in South Africa.