Ismael Patelia

'I had the best time of my life, while I was living amongst the black African!'

Ismael Patelia is a poet. He grew up in Pretoria, among the black Africans.

Ismael himself is a so called Coloured. The Coloured had more rights during the Apartheid Era than the black Africans. In Pretoria they stayed next to each other. In Cape Town, the Coloured and the black African were seperated. The Coloured and the Indians were forced to move out of the city centre of Cape Town. The black Africans must move further away from the centre than the Coloured and Indians.