Apartheid was indeed a terrible thing in south Africa being that it even extended in sports as you have mentioned above.
Though these are Very interesting and fun memories you enjoyed most especially as you were playing soccer with your dad. Am a fun of sports as well. Am a tennis player and i love soccer as well though i rarely play it.
Its great to have learned this about South Africa in its olden days. Thanks be to God for the revival and transformation that has wiped away racial segregation from your country.
South-Africa is still segregated. Whites live in the suburbs like Stellenbosch(Mostly afrikaans) Clifton(mostly english). isiXhosa's in nomzamo in ghetto's. Zulu's in Natal.
What would you call what God did at Tower of Babel? Did he not segregate them, because they would cause harm if they where united. So I don't think you should refer to God in this instance, not a good reference point. Because the National Party involved state and religion more than this current state, they where deeply religious. Only since apartheid was abolished we where not allowed to pray in primary school anymore in the mornings. They are reformed christian just like yourself.
I don't think revival happend... If my point was not clear.
some good points here. what I am always told is that segregation should be based on economics, just like the rest of the world applies it. It is unfortunate as I regard class distinction as evil. However communism just pulled everyone down except for the "leaders". Because Christianity was promoted by a supporter of the Nationalist Government in its early days, I believe that a lot of Black people link the two to the detriment of Christianity. Yes the Tower of Babel episode did occur but it was not for segregation, it was rather to divide and weaken humanity in terms of applying evil practises; before the diversity of languages occurred, mankind was unitedly seeking evil. Also I believe that the NGK did help redirect the "soul of the Afrikaner nation" away from Apartheid. I can still remember how annoyed most Afrikaner families were that I knew at the time
yes, racial segregation is being removed. but it is still going to take the passing of several generations to increase its effect. Sport is still being interfered with to achieve quotas to the detriment of the national sports teams as well as massive administrative corruption where pockets are filled to the detriment of grass roots development in the townships. Mostly Black kids that grow up in white model C schools are being selected to the national teams.