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What race was Melanie Isaacs?


She looks Colored, but her family seems to be Asian, both in appearance and in culture. Also, the name "Isaacs" seems more appropriate for a Colored than an Asian family.

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I am not from South Africa but I did live there for a short while during the Apartheid,which I detested,era.I think way back then she would have been classified as a Cape coloured but I don't know about present day.You see under the Apartheid rule people were classified as Bantu,white or Cape coloured.There were areas which were classified "white by night" which meant just that and if you were not white and caught, you would be thrown behind bars no ifs or buts.That was life in SA if you weren't white.

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