MR VAN STRAATEN
My father taught us that things are right or wrong and that black people should be subjects and slaves, they should be used as labourers.   During that time, I saw many times how black people were attacked and beaten, I never knew why.   As I grew up in our area, there was also a nine o'clock curfew, after which black people were not allowed in the area.   There were patrol vehicles who took people away off the streets who did not obey the curfew, they simply took them away, beat them up, and this is the kind of context in which I grew up.   I then went to
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secondary school, and I continued in a similar vein.   Many of the places where I went, such as shops, shopping centres or malls, cafes, if there were black people, then we simply followed this tradition and also beat people up.   I never knew what the reasons for this was, this was simply the way things were, we grew up in this way and this is how things went.