Vincent Gray

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Produktbeschreibung

Following the revolutionary overthrow of Apartheid Hannah made the following confession to her brother: I have been officially Coloured since 1990. To be honest with you, in my heart, especially during the revolutionary struggle in the 1980s, and following my arrest, I began to self-identify as Coloured, it was this that kept me going, and it was this which motivated me to take the huge risks. In fact for most of my life after school I wanted to be Coloured, I wanted to be the progeny of miscegenation. I fell in love with the word 'miscegenation'. Anyway to cut a long story short. After my detention I reapplied for an ID book and in the application forms I recorded my identity as Coloured. And then in 2000 I had my DNA analysed. You, Elsabe and I are genetically Coloured we are a mixture of Dutch, Cape Malay, Khoi San and Xhosa. We are not white genetically speaking nor are mom and dad or Oupa and Ouma. We are all Coloured.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vincent Gray
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005470258
• Artikelnr.: 74387226

Autorenporträt

As a son of a miner, I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. I grew up in the East Rand mining town of Boksburg. I matriculated from Boksburg High School. After high school, I was conscripted into the South African Defence Force for compulsory national military service when I was 17 years old. After my military service, I went to the University of the Witwatersrand. After graduating with a BSc honours degree I worked for a short period for the Department of Agriculture in Potchefstroom as an agronomist. As an obligatory member of the South African Citizen Miltary Force, I was called up to do 3-month camps on the 'Border' which was the theatre of the so-called counter-insurgency 'Bush War'. In between postgraduate university studies I also worked as a wage clerk on the South African Railways and as a travelling chemical sales rep. In my career as an academic, I was a molecular biologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, where I lectured courses in microbiology, molecular biology, biotechnology and evolutionary biology. On the research side, I was involved in genomics, and plant and microbial biotechnology. I also conducted research into the genomics of strange and weird animals known as entomopathogenic nematodes. I retired in 2019, however, I am currently an honorary professor at the University of the Witwaterand and I also work as a research writing consultant for the University of Johannesburg.