26. Urban Apartheid Was Vastly Different From His Rural Tribal Lifestyle

Apartheid meant that blacks and whites were not allowed to mix at all. There were beaches for whites, public toilets for whites, restaurants for whites, shops for whites, schools for whites. Blacks got whatever was leftover if anything. For somebody who grew up as a prince and was groomed to be a tribal chieftain, the social injustice that he witnessed – and experienced firsthand – was both appalling and unacceptable.



