It's a Black-White Thing

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Donna Bryson. It's a Black-White Thing

Prologue

1. Songs of change

2. Nation building

3. Fragile bridges

4. A knowledge of apartheid

5. Views from abroad

6. Unexpected encounters

7. Family matters

8. The weight of history

9. Dancing in Bloemfontein

10. The languages we speak

11. Choosing to lead

12. The human project

Epilogue

Endnotes

List of interviews

Acknowledgements

Synopsis

About the author

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DONNA BRYSON

It’s a

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Among the senior officials who rushed to the campus to help Ramahlele was Benito Khotseng. In 1993 Khotseng had become one of the university’s first black senior managers. Years later he would offer me further insight into this piece of history and was, like Ramahlele, willing to relive the turmoil of the past. The two also display a remarkable resilience that I see as the real story, a theme that comes up again and again in the stories of South Africans.

Early on, Khotseng’s job had entailed recruiting students. He also took on the role of finding scholarships for black students, and creating special classes to ensure that students who had had the inferior education afforded them during apartheid could keep up academically at a formerly white university. And although not a formal part of his job description, Khotseng’s duties, out of necessity, came to include trying to keep racial confrontations from flaring into violence.

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