What was it like to be a black South African during apartheid?

There was racism in Rhodesia, too, but it was nothing like the institutionalized code in South Africa that made blacks subhuman — the system that Nelson Mandela later fought to bring down. We had been on the road for more than 15 hours that day. read more

Note that the old South Africa have Whites and non whites. The non whites were subdivided into Blacks, Indian, and coloured. I'm writing this from a Indian point of view. read more

In Cradock, a South African town in the eastern Cape where she was living when apartheid was legalized in 1948, my English-speaking mother struggled with her studies after new laws sought to entrench white superiority through the Afrikaans language. read more

I was born in South Africa, under apartheid -- a white child with every privilege. It was the year 1969, five years after Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison. While my parents weren't wealthy, my dad was an engineer, and a graduate of the University of Cape Town. read more