color-bar

Updated: May 26, 2025

For he was not cursing Heaven or humanity; he was cursing that blessed Anglo-Dutch, or rather Dutch-English, institution of South Africa, the color-bar. He had been told by one of the managers that should the father apply for admission to school on behalf of the child we had seen, he would be certainly refused. The father was really much too poor to send her away, he told me.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales

I preached Paradise to that attentive congregation in the iron-roofed church that natives had been so discouraged from attending. I was glad one straggled into the back seats I had battled for, just to demonstrate one's principle of barring out the color-bar.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales