Inter-racial SA family grew during apartheid
After Isaac and Joan Ngwenya moved into their home in Pietermaritzburg in 1993, a boy rode a bicycle past their driveway and shouted an epithet: “Hey, you k*****!”
They were the first inter-racial family to move into a neighbourhood that just two years earlier had been reserved for whites under South Africa's violently segregationist apartheid laws.
“I phoned his mother: 'Listen, your son called me a k*****.' The woman didn't know what to say, talking to a black man,” Isaac Ngwenya said.
A few hours later, the boy's father came to their home. They didn't know what to expect.
“Sir, I work as a mechanic. I have black and white people (in my shop), and this is not the teaching of my family,” the man said, Ngwenya recalled.
“And then from there you start to feel confident in some of the white people.”
Theirs was an exceptional story from the apartheid era, when South Africa's white-minority government used a tangle of legislation to classify every citizen by race – a category that determined where people could live, what they could study, where they could work and whom they could marry.
The repeal of the last laws took effect 20 years ago Thursday, a milestone on the road to the first all-race elections won by Nelson Mandela in 1994.
Ngwenya circumvented the apartheid system, thanks to the determination of his mother, a farm worker in KwaZulu-Natal province, who saw that the “Bantu education” given to black South Africans would never lift her children from poverty.
“They were saying a Bantu child is not smart enough for that. If you teach a Bantu child mathematics, it cannot use it. It is like a dog,” he said.
“That was the doctrine that we had to emancipate ourselves from.”
His mother sent him to nearby Swaziland to live with relatives and receive a better education.
His own efforts won him a scholarship to the University of Calgary in Canada, where he earned an engineering degree and met Joan, who was studying medicine.
They married, and she followed him back to Swaziland where he was offered a job and they started a family.
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