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Retaining Dignity Under Apartheid
"Our freedom is such a precious thing for us in South Africa"
South Africa's "Apartheid stands out as one of the most vicious, brutal systems of legalised racism in the world...
Cheryl Carolus was the South African High Commissioner in London. She was born in Silvertown on the Cape Flats and describes how the struggle against apartheid defined her whole life and led ultimately to her becoming the first South African woman to represent her country to Britain.