Cape Peninsula Still far Behind in Integration

Samaritan gets Chased Like Dog

When a Coloured man (Kurtley Meyer, 47, from Lavender Hill) jumps over a wall to save a White woman’s life by doing CPR, gets her heart going and then gets roughly told by a White man “Wat maak jy” and chased away like a dog there is something very wrong with that White man’s attitude. He is recorded as later saying “Ek is jammer, maar jy kan nie hierdie dinge doen nie”.

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Coloured Man Saves White Woman’s Life

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Alerted by the elderly woman’s daughter’s screaming for help, Kurtley jumped over the wall and administered CPR which he learned from a TV programme. When he began there was no pulse. That woman owes Kurtley her life and is grateful and thankful for his help.

The predominance of Dutch Reformed churches in Lakeside and surrounds and the general mistrust of coloured people is a hangover from a bygone era.

Living in Self-Made Prisons

Yes, there are coloured ‘bergies‘ who sell tik and boom to teenagers. Yes, there are young coloured and black men who mug the elderly (including my own mother 2 years ago – in her own yard) – but white people who are governed by fear, living behind their electric fences, fail to see that they have emulated concentration camp-style incarceration – for themselves.