THE FORGOTTEN BLACK YOUTH
South Africa once followed in great detail the story of a light-skinned boy from Bronkhorstspruit, Mpumalanga. What captivated the country were the claims the young man made – that he was of white ethnicity and was abducted as a child by a black family. A lot of shenanigans followed the young man’s story and a paint company jumped on the bandwagon with an advert about colour.
Although he would later fade into obscurity, Happy Sindane was not a strange case of young people lost in the system. It is the norm in this country for the forgotten black youth in their masses – dropping out of school, taking to alcohol and drugs, and being consumed by other social
