Born a Crime

Obviously, I was not the only child
born to black and white parents
during apartheid. Traveling around
the world today, I meet other mixed
South Africans all the time. Our
stories start off identically. We’re
around the same age. Their parents
met at some underground party in
Hillbrow or Cape Town. They lived
in an illegal flat. The difference is
that in virtually every other case
they left. The white parent
smuggled them out through
Lesotho or Botswana, and they grew
up in exile, in England or Germany
or Switzerland, because being a
mixed family under apartheid was