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Wasted youth

I was raised in the 70s & 80s and was taught that if you were not white you were inferior. I was conscripted into the SADF for 2years national service and a further 10yrs of citizen force duties in all this time I believed what was told to us about the "swartgevaar" and I suported the apartheid government in subjecting the masses.

Today I realize that I was wrong and that apartheid was wrong and no person should be able to control a race and tell them what to think.

A few years ago I met Adrian Vlok commissioner of police during the apartheid years and he said that he had apologized to the masses but not one person thought to apologize to the white youth who were brainwashed and then left to themselves some of whom ended up drug addicts, victims of rage and suicide.

I today want to apologize to the people of South Africa who suffered under apartheid for my supporting this evil apartheid was and always will be wrong.

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