Special Report Transcript Episode 86, Section 4, Time 36:31

I now realize that I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. For many years, when I went to visit my parents in the very dark years here, I would sometimes sit in an airport on my way back and think what am I going back to? A country that doesn’t seem to be ever going to solve its problems and I would say if it wasn’t for my husband and children I would seriously think of whether I want to go back or not. And I never became a South African citizen at that time, because I felt that it was wrong to try to exercise a vote when other citizens, born citizens of the country didn’t have the vote. So I only became a South African in 1993. But I remember the feeling that there almost, the day almost that I confirmed my feeling, that I really felt I was a South African. I was flying back into Cape Town and it was a beautiful flight and it was a lovely golden light and a beautiful evening. And as we flew into Cape Town I had that almost physical sense of joy of coming home. That’s when I knew I was really a South African.

Notes: Mary Burton

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