Interview

  • little brother, parents

  • No info abt the political situation, no TV, ignorance

  • The parents were aware of the apartheid, before the political problems started, not really a bad thing, stay with the system

  • Some pressure, other problems in the world

  • Britain recession, social problems

  • Problems everywhere

  • Parents wanted to travel

  • South africa, better schools

  • Signs of the seperation

  • Water fountains, toilets → first realization

  • Schools were seperate

  • Noticed approx at 11 yrs

  • Influence: parents worked in a system that was built around the Apartheid, black ppl that worked for the dad, recieved the pay and asked the dad to look after it, fridays (violence), they didn‘t take money home for a few days, gangs and tribes (fights), the dad was shocked

  • Virtually no crime

  • Every slight problem was met with violence (fashists)

  • Very conservative, right winged

  • Mother noticed a lot more, very aware that they were guests in the country, they were allowed to work there but nothing more, no integration, intimidated by the whole system, went along with it, didn‘t agree with it

  • More and more violence and politically incorrect, a lot of pressure to stop apartheid, they decided to come back

  • Not reported, downplayed the violence

  • Care packages, english newspaper about what had really happened (wasn‘t reported in south africa itself)

  • Granddad was arrested → a black woman in the car after dark

  • Not a big punishment

  • Curfew after it got dark (23-06) black ppl weren‘t allowed to be

  • White children → rugby

  • Black children → soccer

  • Everything was seperate

  • No black ppl in cinemas

  • Very little contact between them

  • System didn‘t let the people build any deep relationship w the other race

  • Black ppl worked on the farms (lived there)

  • Suburbia

  • Grew up in england

  • Kwazulu → Swazyland (?) No Apartheid, a lot of black people

  • No everday influence

  • Two or three people as friends at school/rugby

  • No black children

  • Schools were in the townships

  • White school systems were very well funded

  • No specific events

  • History (?): South africa was empty, and they started a colony there, christian beliefs, seperate for south africa, tribal, afrikaans were involved

  • Industries, skilled workers, import → couldn‘t train them themselves, english speaking, ingrained in the system

  • Comparison: didn‘t rain as much, financially a lot better in south africa, a bigger house, nicer cars, good life, good facilities, coal mining industry, south africa had a lot going for white people, good standard of living (at expense of black ppl)

  • Different POVs

  • Most ppl didn‘t agree with it but didn‘t know how bad it was

  • If smn tried to help, they could get deported

  • Grew up in a red neck place

  • Children in places with more liberal ideas, like in capetown, would have noticed more opposition to the apratheid