Sylwia 🏳️‍⚧️ :nyarch: on Nostr: "The reference to sheets of plastic over our heads is to the apartheid regime’s ...

"The reference to sheets of plastic over our heads is to the apartheid regime’s practice of waiting until the cold winter to evict illegal black squatters in the cities. They were expected to remain in their ‘independent’ homelands. The reference to mixing sand with flour comes from accounts by social workers who worked in the most impoverished areas during the apartheid years. They spoke about how parents added sand to their children’s food, in a desperate attempt to fill their stomach"