The decades-old eNCA news piece about a well-off white couple, the Hewitts, resurfaced on Twitter this week.
For better or worse, the internet is forever. And what was ‘celebrated’ twenty years ago, might be frowned upon today. This seems to be the case after a 2013 clip of a white family who decided to live in a shack for one month resurfaced online.
The couple, along with their two little children, moved into the shack for an entire month so that they could experience the challenges facing poor South Africans. At the time eNCA visited the family at their temporary home, where they shared how they want their children to always understand people from different walks of life.
I can still remember this, and if I recall correctly most people’s reaction to it was fairly positive – from across the racial divide. To any privileged person, it can only be a good thing to experience the lives of those less fortunate than you – even for just a month. Perhaps in a way, it also showed that post-apartheid whiteys genuinely had the desire to get to know their black countrymen beyond what was force-fed to them by the Nats.
“White men who decides to experience a poor life makes news in South Africa but a black men who was forced to that life doesn’t make news. That is South Africa for you.”
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