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Contents 1 RACIAL CATEGORISATION 2 Broken Links 3 Vandalism 4 Change needed in See Also sections

[edit] RACIAL CATEGORISATION

Among `white' South Africans were Europeans as well as people from Near East origins. Lebanese, Turks and Iranians were accepted as white but not Indians , why? They are mostly Caucasoid and could claim Aryan heritage. What would a European looking Anglo-Indian like Saira Mohan have been classified as? She could have assumed another identity and passed herself off for fully European(Mediterranean). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.169.47.77 (talk • contribs).

Indians make up a sizeable population in South Africa, and were defined as one of the four race groups under Apartheid (Black, White, Coloured and Indian). Other nationalities like Lebanese, Turks and Iranians would have been numerically less significant. Partly it would have been decided based on physical appearance. I've also read that some nationalities were classed as "whites" because their countries had better diplomatic relations with South Africa. I suppose individual foreigners would have gone through a bureaucratic process to determine their race in South African terms. Maybe this involved ticking a box on a form, and hoping that an official didn't decide to "downgrade" you, based on your name, your relatives, your appearance, and how he felt that morning? It became farcical when dealing with the blurred edges between the races too. The parliamentary opposition used to have a field day asking the Minister to report on how many Coloureds had been reclassified White, how many Whites reclassified Coloured, etc. It would be funny if it wasn't so offensive and painful to the people involved, separating families, condemning people to second-class citizenship, etc. Zaian 08:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Broken Links

Could we consider removing some of the links that don't go anywhere in this article? I would not know how, I'm just a newbie. Take Care, SonicBoom95 16:39, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

"Many of the inequalities created and maintained by apartheid". I don't know for sure, but I'd bet that this sentence fragment is almost certainly factually incorrect. These inequalities existed during apartheid, but most were probably not created by it, in that they existed before apartheid. 69.111.198.49 00:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Forgive me, I'm a newbie, but the page has been vandalised a bit-- a lot of "dfdfdf" for no good reason. Could someone fix it, or tell me how to go about reverting it? Thank you. Ipsenaut 05:22, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Change needed in See Also sections

Can anyone contribute to the discussion of why links to the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Jim Crow laws are necessary? It seems they are associated with apartheid South Africa for no better reason that they pertain to racial issues in institutional policy. This intermingles American and South African politics erroneously in that the associations are too broad, which is why I request that these links in the See Also section be removed. EnglishEfternamn^talk_contribs 22:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)