Comments on: Becoming South African

By: Pablo Masie

Pablo Masie — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:31:13 +0000

Becoming South African is a great work of personal run through memory lane as well as informative at that. thanks for a great story. love the toilet story, personally I did not really witness any huge earth shaking apartheid stories except for my uncle being searched for with a helicopter under Lucas Mangope’s dictatorships in the old Bophuthatswana…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:15:28 +0000

Excellent piece. Thank you of sharing something so personal.

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By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:37:38 +0000

that will be superb Diva

!! I look forward to hearing more from you

Sarah B – is this our very own expat writer?

By: Alex Papadopulos

Alex Papadopulos — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:13:44 +0000

@Sarah, I’m not sure if we are after a rating system (definitely not a competition), but I am glad you are reading what do you think of the topic?

@Diva, It does seem like the coloured “race” has always been forgotten by the powers, being right there in the middle. I think your insights are going to be great!

By: SarahB

SarahB — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:23:39 +0000

Eloquent, sharp focus personal. I like this one. Got promise. 8 out of 10

By: Diva

Diva — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:10:10 +0000

Angela: We were either European or None-European and being a None-European meant anyone who was not white. They tried to seperate us into white, black, coloured, indian and asian as far as I know.

Wendy: I know what you mean about the Apartheid language. I think we were all ‘taught’ to have prejudices and it will definitely take a long time to wipe those out completely.

Colleen: Hopefully I can bring some more interesting bits from the coloured perspective in stories to come.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:26:09 +0000

Nice one Diva. well written!!! It’s interesting to me that Coloured people were also indoctrinated to fear ‘the blacks’, that is something I never knew and/or never thought about.

By: The Cloudgazer

The Cloudgazer — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:19:38 +0000

Nicely written Diva. Very informative. So it was not just black and white, but black, coloured and white. Or just shades of gray I suppose. What a weird world we lived in, still do I guess. Like Wendy said; baby steps. Gotta learn to crawl before you can run.

By: Diva

Diva — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:15:17 +0000

Thank you guys

I think that what will make this project especially interesting is the fact that we will be getting stories told from so many different perspectives. I hope I can keep on contributing!