A friend asks: Comrades can someone explain how Indians and Coloureds where affected during the apartheid regime?

Sun, Jan 8, 2012

My answer is:

The same way the Africans were...

They had to use non-whites toilets, non-whites sections in buses, non-whites beaches, etc.

They were told whites were better than non-whites.

The only difference was that Africans had the worse treatment, and "Coloureds" had a better treatment, and the Indian had an even better treatment. The apartheid architects had to categorise "blacks" so as to divide them. Remember, united we stand, divided we fall. Abo Verwoed knew this so they'd say Indians, you are the superior blacks. "Coloureds", you are the next best blacks.

Even amongst Africans certain treatments would make certain Africans feel better than the others, etc.

"Coloureds" being sell-outs is just an unproven accusation. Sell-outs were present in every group in our soceity and that includes the Africans also. In fact you will learn that there was what was called the "necklace" ko kassie

And the "necklace" was actually an old tyre thrown on or around a neck of an impimpi / sell-out / an informer like a necklace and set alight, killing the alleged sell-out.

The history of the struggle shows that even "Coloured" people fought against discrimination.

You will notice that I put the term "Coloured/s" in inverted commas because I regard the term to be an insult to the African and Cape Malay people. The Cape Malay, Mixed-raced Africans, and Khoisan, etc. were all called "Coloureds". The term was created to categorise and "box" people so that they were easy to "manage".

Until this day you still see the effects of Apartheid in South Africa.

1. You still find whites (or European-Africans as I call them) who think they are superior and better that non-whites (or Africans and Indian-Africans).

2. You still find Indian-Africans (Indians) who still believe they are better than indigenous Africans and Cape Malay (what we call Africans and Coloureds).

3. You still find Africans who see a superior beings when the see European-Africans (whites), Indian-Africans (Indians), and Cape Malay (Coloureds)because they we psychologically made to believe this.

Apartheid is on auto-pilot! It's working long after Verwoed and his gang are gone! Internalised oppression is in effect!!

I could write 5 pages or 50 pages on this matter. Or even 500 pages!!