Please join the launch of Ulla Dentlinger’s book Where are you from. ‘Playing White’ under Apartheid at Clarke‘s Bookshop in Cape Town.

Programme

• Welcome and Introduction by Craj Rassool
• “Juggling colour in apartheid Namibia“? Ulla Dentlinger in conversation with Horst Kleinschmidt

Refreshments will be served and the book will be on sale.

Please RSVP to Clarke‘s Bookshop: Tel +27(0)21 423 5739, eMail: books@clarkesbooks.co.za

“My family did the unthinkable: after getting away with ‘playing white’ for some years,
we went one step further and ‘jumped the colour line’. By various obscure and not
well-documented processes, we changed our ‘racial’ classification from ‘coloured’ – as
defined by the apartheid policy of the day – to that of ‘white’. We juggled colour …
the price we paid was anguish, constant fear of detection and a sacrifice of family
connectedness. The decades-long process of becoming completely comfortable with my
ultimate identity was psychologically so unnerving that I have only recently felt free
to talk about it. This is certainly the first time I ever write about it.”