A baby sparks a race debate
The case was a textbook illustration of the absurdity of South Africa's rigid apartheid policy. In a field on the outskirts of Pretoria, a black worker came upon a two-week-old infant wrapped in a blanket, her head covered with a paper bag. The abandoned baby was taken to a nearby hospital, where nurses named her Lize.
What should have been a happy ending was only the beginning of a national controversy. By law, every South African citizen must be assigned to one of four racial categories: white, black, "colored" (mixed race), or Asian. According to...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
