Living Coloured: (Because Black and White were Already Taken)

by Yusuf Daniels

Overview

Living Coloured (Because Black and White were Already Taken) is a compilation of short stories that is an ode to an era all Cape Coloured people will instantly recognise – from the nightclubbing at Space Odyssey and the shenanigans at the Mitchells Plain public swimming pool, to the traditions of delectable food exchanges during Ramadan among Muslims and Christians, alike. This book truly is a tribute to all that the Coloured community holds dear and sings of the spirit which helped them eek out an existence on the dusty flat plains of the Cape. But as you read story after story, you will also be confronted with the blatant racism that was the Group Areas Act, the legacy of a people removed and dumped in this windswept place that wasn’t of their own making, and the constant forging ahead to make life worthwhile under very harsh political and economic circumstances. The stories will also leave you seething with anger at the sheer brutality of what this community had to endure (and still do), while their black counter parts in the township next door lived even harsher realities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781431428816
Publisher:	Jacana Media
Publication date:	09/24/2019
Edition description:	None
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Yusuf Daniels grew up in what some still refer to as the Cape Flats ghettos. One of four children, he was born in Bridgetown and later moved with his family to Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats. His family, like thousands of other families, carved out an existence in a closeknit Coloured community that still today eat, laugh and pray together, despite the hardships of South Africa’s horrific political, economic and social past. He is currently a property auctioneer and a father of three.