Special Report Transcript Episode 29, Section 5, Time 29:44

The beauty of the Karoo’s wide open spaces belies a cruel apartheid past in which black people were made to survive by passing themselves off as Coloureds. During the apartheid years the Karoo became by law an official Coloured area. For black people it became a hostile place to live and work. // ‘n Kleurling [a Coloured] … in those years of apartheid they were the most privileged because to my thinking they were the most privileged because of the colour of their skin, and the language they were talking. // In certain places you could not find work because you carried a pass book. You had to first go to the magistrate to get a pass to go into certain towns if you were a black person. Whereas the Coloured could go anywhere with his green ID card.

Notes: Reporter; Dawid Malgas; Amelia Bokbaard

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