Hi @MimiReeds. Have you guys heard about the story Sandra Laing? She is a South African women who is 'known' for having coloured/African features yet both her biological parents were white. I'll continue to summarise the story in this thread. http://xfru.it/DQh7Nk 

Born in Piet Retief in Mpumalanga in 1955. Although both her biological parents were white, she had a darker complexion with kinkier hair and she was classified as a Coloured. People obviously did not believe that she was white hence they threatened to take away from her parents.

When she grew up, she was frequently called a Kaffir. Even the father was suspicious of Sandra's true father until DNA proved that Sandra was his true biological daughter. Then she was reclassified as white by the Apartheid system. But that still didn't end discrimination.

After finish school at a coloured boarding schooling, she accepted that the white society will not accept her even though her parents wanted her to be with a white Afrikaner. She met and secretly fell in love with her father's employee named Petrus Zwane.

Her father was furious and threatened to kill Petrus Zwane and abandon Sandra so they both ran away and Sandra never saw her father again. Sandra and Petrus had 2 kids but years later Petrus became abusive towards her so she ran away from him.

Sandra went back to her childhood house but she discovered that her parents relocated to Pongola. She tried to get hold of them but unfortunately she couldn't meet them. So she moved to Johannesburg and she hustled to look after her children.

After freedom day in 1994, she finally got to see her mother in an old age home but unfortunately her father died years ago. The sad part of this story is that till this day her brothers still refused to meet with her. That's the end.

They even made a movie about this story in 2008 and it's called 'skin'. Please try to watch the movie. It is so touching and Emotional. It's so heartbreaking to think how Apartheid could even damage our damage our families. Its also on Netflix (thank God).