Special Report Transcript Episode 79, Section 5, Time 42:18

During the apartheid year many Africans living in the so-called coloured preferential areas gave up their ethnic identities and called themselves coloured. In the Karoo they called this ‘om jou baadjie om te draai,’ to turn your jacket inside out. There were many advantages to passing as coloured. coloured people did not have to carry pass books and there were more jobs available. But with freedom comes dignity. Many of the Xhosa’s, Zulu’s, Tswana’s and Sotho’s of the Karoo now want to go back to their roots. ‘Hulle wil weer hulle baadjies omdraai’ [they again want to turn their jackets inside out].

Notes: Max du Preez

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