Preview
Sandra is the distinctly African looking daughter of white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. despite Sandra’s mixed-race appearance, have lovingly brought her up as their ‘white’ little girl. When her `colour` causes problems in school, her family goes through the whole legal process to prove her `white`. By the time she is 17, Sandra realises she is never going to be accepted by the white community. She falls in love with Petrus — a black man, the local vegetable seller, and elopes with him to Swaziland. Now Sandra must live her life, for the first time, as a black woman in South Africa — with no running water, no sanitation, and little income. She and Petrus have two children, and although she feels more at home in this community, she desperately misses her parents and yearns for a reunion.
After many more years of hardship and struggle, the chances of that reunion ever happening seem remote. But Sandra carries her father`s advice with her wherever she goes: `Never give up!`