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Hoofstuk 2: Die oorsprong van die apartheidsverhaal<br />

p69<br />

being and, as with white people, there were good and bad ones. He repeatedly told us<br />

to apply the principle of right and wrong, not white or black or right of left." Dit is ook<br />

vanuit so ʼn huishouding dat Frans opmerk: my pa (het) in die aande die<br />

swarte wat in daai klein kamertjie bly wat Ben van gepraat het,<br />

ingenooi as hulle daar was om saam met ons huisgodsdiens te hou<br />

[Frans 1-442].<br />

Maar dit was in hierdie selfde huishoudings waar<br />

most whites were so afraid of Africans that they never went anywhere<br />

near the townships ... They crossed the road when they saw Africans<br />

coming, or locked the doors of their cars. They were so scared that<br />

they wouldn't even attend professional soccer matches in the secure<br />

heart of white Johannesburg because they knew blacks would be<br />

present in large numbers (Malan 1990:144).<br />

Elsa sluit aan by hierdie stereotipiese siening van swart mense. Sy sê:<br />

die geskiedenis wat ons in die skool geleer het, het<br />

ons geleer swartmense is barbare. Die Zoeloes het<br />

die babatjies se koppies teen die wawiele stukkend<br />

geslaan. We were brainwashed. Baie van die witmense<br />

vandag nog, is bang vir swartmense want dit is hoe<br />

ons grootgeword het. Ons het van kleins af gedink<br />

swartmense is barbare. Daar bestaan nog steeds 'n<br />

soort van 'n vrees by baie witmense [Elsa 7-330].<br />

Terselfdertyd, en desondanks die respek wat wit mense beweer hulle vir swart mense<br />

gehad het, blyk dit in orde te wees om swart mense as minderwaardig te behandel,<br />

omdat hulle dikwels so gesien is. Swanepoel (1997:26) vertel van ʼn KwaZulu-Natalse<br />

boer se raad: "I must give knives to the black people so that they can kill each other.<br />

Kaffirs are not people, they are animals." Selfs kerkleiers was baie negatief in hulle<br />

assessering van swart mense in Suid-Afrika. Die Afrikaanse digter en kerkman Totius<br />

(Du Toit 1955:11) praat oor Suid-Afrika as “...ons swart wêreld-deel waar die mees<br />

algemene barbaarsheid sy hoogste triomfe gevier het.”<br />

Elsa herinner dieselfde houding uit haar vroeë kinderjare: want dit is so in ons<br />

ingeteel, in ons kele afgedruk van kleins af dat swart mense

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