More than twenty years after the dismantling of South Africa's white supremacist apartheid regime, racial inequalities remain entrenched in the South African landscape. Blacks are still largely excluded from white spaces and denied the resources and opportunities historically hoarded by whites. Despite their socially marginalized positions, Black South African women in the peri-urban townships have successfully established home-based bed and breakfasts for tourists in the post-apartheid era. In entering the global tourism market, some of these entrepreneurial Black women have developed social and economic relationships with white South African and European women. This thesis examines these transracial and transnational partnerships in the South African township bed and breakfast market. Drawing from field research and interviews conducted in Khayelitsha, a township outside of Cape Town, I demonstrate how these connections facilitate Black women's small business establishment and growth. Moreover, I argue that these unique relationships challenge the systemic processes that reproduce racial inequality, rendering township bed and breakfasts small but important sites where these processes are disrupted.