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1. What spoke to you?

2. How has your thinking been expanded related to the Apartheid?

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1. What spoke to you?

2. How has your thinking been expanded related to the Apartheid?

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1. What spoke to you?

2. How has your thinking been expanded related to the Apartheid?

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Conner Beukes, 10th Grade Student at ISD

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Conner Beukes, 10th Grade Student at ISD

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Conner Beukes, Growing Up Post-Apartheid.mp4

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Grew up in South Africa, mostly Cape Town

What was it like growing up in post-apartheid South Africa?

"Well, I'm very fortunate because I'm light-skinned, which is called coloured in South Africa. I speak Afrikaans, my home language and I also speak English. I don't know any Zulu or anything."

"There was racism still but not that bad as before. In history classes, we learned about Nelson Mandela life and how he fought for freedom."

"We also learned about his wife Winnie Mandela who was also a freedom fighter."

"When you speak about post-apartheid, it's like, it has changed, like there's now a diversity in schools. Like in previous schools there was only white and then everybody used to be with their own race. That's how apartheid was. You were with your own group and your own race. So if you were light-skinned, you would be grouped in a school with only light-skinned."

"That's how my parents grew up. My mum was in a pure white school and my dad was in a light-skinned school."

"There were identity books. You were living in a country, but that also made you a prisoner of that country. Then based on your colour or your race [...] white supremacy."

"It's like the current situation when they say Black Lives Matter but just 100 times worse, way worse because even though you had your own opinion, you still had zero equality, zero say. It wasn't democracy at all. Because black people couldn't vote, coloured people couldn't vote. It was only white people and it was like for how many years. That's what we learned about the Apartheid in school."

"And how Mandela changed it...Mandela spent how many years in prison fighting for his rights."

"Post-Apartheid...based on my experience..."
...There still a bit of racism in schools. I was in a mixed school before and based on your race [...] most of my teachers were white."

"Even though you were white or kinda white, you wouldn't get into trouble, but like, if you were black, they would prosecute you for no reason. You've done nothing wrong, but they would blame you. That's how it kinda was but then after a few ones, they got reported. The school got reported and there was a whole bunch of other things."

"But I'm kinda grateful that I moved away cause, I actually enjoy being here at ISD. It's way different from my previous school."

"If you have anything you want to ask about apartheid, you could message me at 23connb@student.isd.sn and thanks for listening. Bye."