An Interview With Lynette Hufkie

I interviewed Ginny Rice, a white lady who works with my mother as well as Lynette Hufkie a coloured woman.

Ginny Rice lived in Ronderbosch, which was a quiet middle class area with a park nearby, and most of the children in the area went to the neighbouring schools while their mothers stayed at home all day. Her community was pleasant and peaceful. Rice’s father was an accountant at Shell and her mother was a stay at home mom. Rice’s teenage years were happy, carefree years filled with her family and friends. Some of her most memorable moments are from the annual holidays trips she would take with her family. Hufkie also lived in a quiet, lovely area where everything was in walking distance, including her school so she never needed

They were both extremely happy that people were finally going to be treated fairly and equally. Hufkie. Rushed to the parade to see the icon who had just been a name before.

Hufkie's school, Battswood Primary School in Wynberg, was owned by a church and didn't exactly agree with the government of the time. Her school’s amenities were moderately good, although there weren’t any sports facilities. They showed her how apartheid was wrong and inhumane. Her teachers also taught her that she was not ‘non-entities’ and that she should never regard to herself as ‘Non-European’ but as South African. Rice went to Springfield Convent in Wynberg, like myself, as was also taught by the nuns about the unfairness and inequality of Apartheid laws. Although her school grounds were also good, and very beautiful gardens with historic buildings, she similarly had lovely sports grounds. She studied at Springfield for 10 years before going to UCT and receiving a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Geography and African

Hufkie also listen to whatever was trendy and her parents ‘old-music’ but the ‘old-music’ she would listen to were mainly old hymns about slavery they would sing with her grandmother playing the guitar. Both Rice and Hufkie wore clothes that were fashionable for their times, however most of Hufkie's wardrobe consisted of mainly handmade garments or hand-me-downs. She hardly ever got new clothes except as maybe a present at Easter or Christmas or her school uniform. None of my clothes are handmade and I generally get clothes throughout the year. My only second hand clothes that I have are my school uniform which is very normal in my community. Both a Rice and Hufkie had a radio and a black and white TV as their prime source of entertainment. They were both very restrictive because the apartheid government only allowed their propaganda to be broadcast. Freedom songs slime Bob Marley was banned and after every program the song ‘Die Stem’ would be played. Hufkie remembers that someone in the family would always race to switch the TV/radio off so that they didn't have to hear it. Television sets are the Hufkies seem better