Skin deep - the fight for acceptance
Updated on 04 July 2009
A new film describes the true story of a white Afrikaaner couple who gave birth to a child with dark skin and frizzy hair, unaware they had black ancestry. Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports.
The couple lovingly brought her up as their "white" daughter.
But at the age of 10, Sandra Laing was classified as "black" and driven out of white society.
A new film, Skin, tells the extraordinary story of this woman, whose struggle with her identity has become a symbol for all the cruelty and devisiveness of apartheid South Africa.
