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Old 10-22-2007, 03:17 AM   #7 (permalink)
Agrippina
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Originally Posted by africanhope View Post
I was beat up at school quiete often for my 'liberal' ideas, and my dad just shook his head everytime. And Iwas expelled from a more posh school for painting the huge portrait of PW Botha with black PVA, after the headmaster refused my request to remove the painting from the school hall.

But this is nothing to the suffering of the millions of black south Africans. And I can tell you being an anti-apartheid Afrikaans speaker was not easy too!! Ask someone like the GREAt Bran Fischer, or Breyten Breytenbach.

AH
Yes of course and all the other people who died because they spoke out - Steve Biko springs to mind what was the name of the guy - Daved??? he was gunned down in the street. I am so bad with names, can't remember them - must be getting old.
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