My grandmother and my grandfather on my maternal side were both born in South Africa in 1921 and 1925 respectively. They left before Apartheid started, and we returned as a family in 1998, my mother, my grandmother and I, after it ended.
I didn’t learn about Apartheid until I was in secondary school. The pronunciation didn’t roll off my tongue. I had to …
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