1. Which act had the biggest impact on you?
2. Did apartheid have an emotional effect on you?
3. Did you have a job during the apartheid era?
4. Did you ever come into contact with different races?
5. How did you feel about the government and its laws at the time?
6. Were you ever arrested or detained and if you were please explain?
7. How did you react to the pass laws?
8. How did you feel about white rule?
9. Did you ever see or experience physical torture?
10. Did you ever run in with the law? 1. “Many laws had a negative impact on my life but The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949 by far had the biggest impact on my life because I fell in love with a white man it was a struggle to go out in public together or even walk down the aisle together. We still ended up breaking the law by living together and getting married.”
2. “It didn’t affect me very emotionally like other people but yes in a way it did because it was difficult to become someone especially because I was a black female. There weren’t many opportunities for black people.”
3. “As I was the daughter of a chief I was regarded as a princess so I didn’t really do hard labour on land instead I worked as a nanny and chef for a British family not far away from my home.”
4. “Yes I worked for white people so I socialised with white people every day but in town you weren’t really allowed to be close to other people of different races.”
5. “I hated these laws because it stopped people from getting a proper education and it also didn’t allow people of different races to mix. People in other places in the world also didn’t know about what was really happening in South Africa.”
6. “Yes I was arrested a couple of times because I was in love with a white man. People were prohibited to have mixed relationships/marriages. Even after being arrested several times for this it