Although people of Indian origin have been present in South Africa since 1860, they are still objects of suspicion in the ‘New’ South Africa. In many quarters, they are accused of exploiting Africans and, in the past, collaborating with apartheid.
The thesis is that our identity is partly shaped by recognition or its absence, often by the misrecognition of others, and so a person or group of people can suffer real damage, real distortion, if the people or society around them mirror back to them a
SAM RAMSAMY HAS BECOME A CHAMPION OF SOUTH AFRICAN SPORT IN THE WIDER WORLD
WHERE, IN THE APARTHEID ERA, HE LABOURED TO PREVENT SOUTH AFRICA'S PRESENCE.......
