When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.
I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.
Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.
I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.