The operators of the gas station in rural, racist South Africa had taken her money to fill the car, but would not give her the key to the toilets. Pre-Apartheid is the what happened before Apartheid became law. It was so alien. Black people who worked in those suburbs had to have permission to live in the "boy's quarters" at the bottom of the garden - such approval was stamped into much-hated "passbooks." The exception was South Africa's racially segregated beaches.To my surprise, I realised that Johannesburg was not made up of dusty, treeless suburbs with poor homes crowded onto small plots overlooked by dumps. We moved to England from Rhodesia when I was child because my mother fell in love with a white man, Michael Faul, who had come to Rhodesia when he was 2. 400 arrests in four days: Cele slams maskless residents in CT informal ... Cele warns Cape Town criminals 200 new police officers are coming for them. RELATIVE 'PLAYED WHITE'I remember the sorrow brought on our family because one of my mother's sisters "played white." South Africa had a crazy system of deciding your race, including whether the moons of your fingernails were a bit more mauve than white, indicating a hint of black blood. We were taking the car because the train ride was difficult for a woman with three children and lots of baggage.The train also was an uncomfortable ride for blacks: Halfway through the trip, in the middle of the night, they would have to get out of the Rhodesian Railways compartments and transfer to decrepit blacks-only South African carriages.The car trip presented its own challenges. Section 7: South Africa After Apartheid In 1994, South Africans of all races went to the polls to vote in that country‟s first multiracial election. Blacks were not allowed to have their families living with them. There also was the test of whether a pencil would stay in your hair, indicating it must be of kinky black stock. I remember the sorrow brought on our family because one of my mother's sisters "played white." ► Rapid indu… It was the early 1960s, and apartheid was the law of the land. But there is a new fight apartheid era, examines the differences between the legal classification of Japanese and Chinese in South Africa, and highlights the active role of the Chinese community in constructing a unique Chinese South African identity. Between 1948 and 1994, South Africans lived under a racist system of laws called apartheid. An apartheid notice on a beach near Capetown in 1976 denotes the area is for whites only. Being white meant you got decent health care, your kids could go to school, and you could live where you wanted. We lowered our shorts, but I was so traumatized that I simply could not go. When that evil system finally was crushed, we all were in awe of Mandela's insistence on reconciliation and not retribution. But with the pain still stark in her eyes, she told me, "That's what she had to do to make a better life for herself and her children. And there is even now a new President of South Africa, after the Mandela era. Police killed anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko in his jail cell in September 1977. The exception was South Africa's racially segregated beaches. "Opposition to Afrikaans as "the language of the oppressor" led to the 1976 uprising in Soweto, when police opened fire on 15,000 students marching in a peaceful protest. Apartheid (South African English: / ə ˈ p ɑːr t eɪ d /; Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦɛit], segregation; lit. United Nations Security Council resolution 591, adopted unanimously on 28 November 1986, after recalling resolutions 418 (1977), 421 (1977), 473 (1980) and 558 (1984), the Council strengthened the mandatory arms embargo against apartheid South Africa imposed by Resolution 418, and made it more comprehensive.