Middle class people treat domestic workers like lower forms of life, but change is coming

From This Is Africa Mon Sep 23 2013, 13:31:00

She walks, clad in a traditional French-maid uniform, pushing a vintage pram along the Jacaranda tree-lined pavement. She reaches the local park and enters through the rusted gate. Her friends are here, sitting on the lush green grass, their backs leaning against a wooden bench. The bench is inscribed with the all too familiar phrase, 'Net Blinkes'. She sits down leaning her own back against this 'Whites Only' bench, their chatter reaching the heights of the tallest leaves on the very tallest trees. She reaches into the pram, moves the blanket away and picks up a baby, a pale white baby with a mop of blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. Her friends have similarly pale babies positioned on their laps and protectively craned in their arms. This is apartheid South Africa and these are 'African mothers', more commonly dubbed domestic workers.

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