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Bylaag 7: Gesprek 7 (4 November 1998)
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Hanlie: And what did parents advise their children as far as that is concern. Like in your
house, was it also told to your children, you just do what the white boss tells you.
Quincy: That was sort of a culture,
Steve: Let me just jump in there. We have been taught, I in particular come from a very
conservative background, my grandpa, when he saw a white man passing, he will take
off his hat. I come from that kind of situation. We come from a background where we
were just to receive, if you question something the security police will take you out. I
have been taken out as school principle more than ten times by Y; he is in the security
police. If you try to skip the country they go and question the school principle. We come
from that state of terror, that is why sometimes when you talk about apartheid, you
don't know what you are talking about, you don't know what you are talking about. You
talk about the black terror, when we saw a policeman you go to the nearest room. I
remember when I got to London on my way to study in America. We saw a policeman,
there were five of us from South Africa, some of us wanted to run away. Somebody
said hey man this is London, you can forget about the things of SA: At least we are
educated, but still that fear was there, fear was instilled in us. That is why in the black
community when we talk about the policeman we talk about the worst enemy.
Danie: Ek wil net 'n opmerking maak oor wat Quincy gesê het oor die skoolstelsel. Dit
klink of ons uit dieselfde mond praat, want ek sê nou dieselfde van die huidige
skoolstelsel. Die huidige skoolstelsel is vir my ook onderdrukkend vir my wit kind. Want
in die boeke onderstreep hulle, hulle sê vir die kind jy leer dit, dan slaan hulle 'n paar
woord oor, dan onderstreep hulle dit weer en dan sê hulle vir die kind jy leer dit. Dis
hoekom ek voel die huidige skoolstelsel is vir my so onderdrukkend. Verstaan jy wat ek
sê?
Quincy: Maybe I should say, people are all saying "reconciliation", and we are all for
reconciliation. And you know when you think back at the situation in 1953 that I have
just mentioned to you. You will find that indirectly, those are sort of retaliatory type of
things. When people do something they still remember where they come from, and
they start doing things in trying to transform, particularly the black community given the
opportunity of self actualisation and so on. Actually in a way they are saying this is how
it should be done. I think the generations that will have it better in this country are our
daughters and sons, and children of our children, our grandchildren. Those will not see
a white or black person; they will just be seen as a person. So I think that from the point