In one incident an elderly white couple in a restaurant in northern Limpopo province muttered 'disgusting' in Afrikaans, the language of the original Dutch settlers' descendants.
Around that time, Mpho's family left the Soweto township, a hotbed of anti-apartheid activism, for Roodepoort, a white suburb 20 kilometres away."In my primary school, there were only three black kids... That is when I saw I was different," he said.
"A neighbour ran up to me, I was seven or eight, he said: 'Oh there is a black man coming, we need to hide, he is going to steal from us'," she said."I did not understand." "We got the same education, we can relate to each other because we grew up in similar environments," said Cheryl.
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