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Man sits resting his head in his hand, Cape Town

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Man seeks race change for love: A young white Cape Town man is to appeal to the Government to re-classify him as a Coloured person so he can marry his Coloured girlfriend. "If they won't reclassify me Coloured, I will leave the country of my birth so that I can live legally with the woman I love and have children by her," Mr Dirk Brits, a 32-year-old fitter, said yesterday.

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Title
Man sits resting his head in his hand, Cape Town
Creator
Photographer unknown
Subject
Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Apartheid, Segregation, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950
Description
Man seeks race change for love: A young white Cape Town man is to appeal to the Government to re-classify him as a Coloured person so he can marry his Coloured girlfriend. "If they won't reclassify me Coloured, I will leave the country of my birth so that I can live legally with the woman I love and have children by her," Mr Dirk Brits, a 32-year-old fitter, said yesterday.
Publisher
University of Cape Town. Libraries
Contributor
Date
07/02/1975
Type
Format
black-and-white photographs, Still image, Image/jpeg
Identifier
islandora:16132
Source
va_independent_S20F_013.jpg, 20F Race SA
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Coverage
Rights
Copyright held by Independent Newspapers. For information about acquiring a copy and/or permission to reproduce an image, please email argpix@inl.co.za

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