Reasoning

Since the incident below, I am very wary of being out on the streets hand in hand with my fella. This is a very small town. It is also a very Afrikaans town. I don’t know if and when I’m gonna get a whole heap of abuse again and from who. It is a weird state of affairs to live like this when going out in public.

People have since said that it is just a one off, that this town isn’t normally like that, that it is just a small minority of South Africans who still have the attitude of Apartheid, that really it’s only been about 13 years since democratic elections put Mandela in power which in the grand scheme of things is a rather short time, to please not leave because everyone where we work rather likes us, to know that we are now the ones challenging people’s views on race and that we are an example of the new rainbow South Africa. Some are definitely valid points. Many guys came to us that night and said these guys were spoiling for a fight so if not us then they would’ve found reason with someone else to start throwing punches.

But I also think, I don’t want to be that couple who challenges. Black and white being together is not a new thing in this country; there are millions of what here they call “coloureds” who have one black and one white parent – where on earth do people think these people come from? Bloody fools.