So I received a comment by email from my "Other" blog, David who lives in Oz now and previously live in South Africa during the 70's. Here is the comment:
Do you want to link to my Blog about the communal house scene in Johannesburg between 1975 and 1978?
It would be nice to do so from your Blog "It's My Life" since I read a very interesting article about people's memories about growing up there in the 1970's.
Here is the link:
http://thetyroneyearsjohannesburg1975to1978.blogspot.com.au/
So David I have linked it under "Blogs I follow" let me know if there is somewhere else you would like me to put it.
It's quite interesting reading an expat's perspective on life in "Apartheid" South Africa, it's a fresh view on how things actually were. Having been born in South Africa and growing up, you just never questioned anything that was going on, and of course there was a ban on broadcasting or writing anything that was happening in the country, so most of the time only the people overseas knew what was happening and not us.
My Kiwi Director, tells me how they learnt about South African history in New Zealand, which seemed a bit odd, and of course they would learn it in a totally different view to how we would have learned it.
I was brought up by English speaking parents and of course my father was born in "Australia", so even though we had a maid living in the back room, she was treated with respect and dignity and especially as our parents would have been around from before "Apartheid" was introduced into South Africa. In fact my "other mum" as I call her, is the first person on my list to visit whenever I return to South Africa.
I started off wanting to post about Communes, but it turned into more of a racial post, so I will have to create another post about communes.
Do you want to link to my Blog about the communal house scene in Johannesburg between 1975 and 1978?
It would be nice to do so from your Blog "It's My Life" since I read a very interesting article about people's memories about growing up there in the 1970's.
Here is the link:
http://thetyroneyearsjohannesburg1975to1978.blogspot.com.au/
So David I have linked it under "Blogs I follow" let me know if there is somewhere else you would like me to put it.
It's quite interesting reading an expat's perspective on life in "Apartheid" South Africa, it's a fresh view on how things actually were. Having been born in South Africa and growing up, you just never questioned anything that was going on, and of course there was a ban on broadcasting or writing anything that was happening in the country, so most of the time only the people overseas knew what was happening and not us.
My Kiwi Director, tells me how they learnt about South African history in New Zealand, which seemed a bit odd, and of course they would learn it in a totally different view to how we would have learned it.
I was brought up by English speaking parents and of course my father was born in "Australia", so even though we had a maid living in the back room, she was treated with respect and dignity and especially as our parents would have been around from before "Apartheid" was introduced into South Africa. In fact my "other mum" as I call her, is the first person on my list to visit whenever I return to South Africa.
I started off wanting to post about Communes, but it turned into more of a racial post, so I will have to create another post about communes.
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