Sandra Laing was born black, but to white parents. It would have been strange anywhere – but in apartheid South Africa it was disastrous. Long before science learned to meddle with genes, there was Sandra Laing. She entered the world in 1955, a beautiful baby by all accounts, who could be expected to grow up [...]
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The black woman – with white parents
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Abbreviated Coloured History
Saddled with the burden of apartheid and colonial-slanted textbooks, South Africans have tended to take their identities from their political leanings. But “mixed marriages” are as old as South Africa itself. As the meaning of democracy dawns, more people are finding family tree research the key to understanding their own heritages. The first written records of [...]
Posted in History, Identity Also tagged Ancestral Mothers, Dutch, FW de Klerk, History, Jan Smuts, Jan van Riebeeck, khoi, Krotoa, mixed marriages, Paul Kruger, Pieter Meerhof, Robben Island, Zaaiman Leave a comment
The Purity of the Afrikaners
Arthur Kemp is a South African white supremacist. His fellow white countrymen, called Afrikaners (also known as Boers or The White Tribe), are descendants of South Africa’s earliest European immigrants, including mainly the Dutch, but also French, Germans, and Scottish. What is not so much acknowledged, is that up to 7% (and no less than [...]
Coloured People, the original aryan race
Searching for the genetic anomaly of the pure bred, the so-called Aryan, is not beyond the conception man. In fact the history of man is wrought and written by the search for the genetic anomaly, may it be based on principles of economy, politics, tribalism, belief, ethnicity or ideas (delusions) of supremacy. With the intervening [...]