Dear Editor,

               Apartheid was completely unjust and it permeated every part of my life.  As a black child growing up in Soweto, I saw the affluence of white communities.  I didn’t understand why my parents were poor and didn’t have a nice house.  I thought that blacks were worse people because they couldn’t be successful and gain wealth like white people.  My parents were barely able to feed my brothers and sisters and now I work 15 hours a day to keep my children from starving.  I served under white people and was dependant on their money.  The struggle against Apartheid was also difficult.  My eldest son was one of the protestors slaughtered at Soweto and I often feared for my family’s safety.  Even though we have shown the world community what happened to us and put an end to Apartheid, its legacy continues and we have a long way to go if black people will ever catch up to white people.