There are plenty of Orientals here in South Africa, with a long history, and increasing these days as our Government engages in economic shenanigans with China, which has become our biggest trade partner. The city of Port Elizabeth, where I was born, at one stage had the largest Chinese population in South Africa. One of my sisters is married to a Chinese. And for fun, here's a story. Way back in 1980, when I first visited Johannesburg, she and hubby were living here, and had a kid, about the same age as the one posted above. I look Asian (Indian), as does she, and on one of our travels on public transport,with the kid, we became aware of the unusual stares from fellow passengers, if not positive confusion and giggles. They all thought we were husband and wife, and could not figure out how two Asians produced a Chinese kid
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Here's some interesting titbits on the history of the Chinese in South Africa- From Wikepedia.
"No group is treated so inconsistently under South Africa's race legislation. Under the Immorality Act they are Non-White. The Group Areas Act says they are Coloured, subsection Chinese ... They are frequently mistaken for Japanese in public and have generally used White buses, hotels, cinemas and restaurants. But in Pretoria, only the consul-general's staff may use White buses .. Their future appears insecure and unstable. Because of past and present misery under South African laws, and what seems like more to come in the future, many Chinese are emigrating. Like many Coloured people who are leaving the country, they seem to favour Canada. Through humiliation and statutory discrimination South Africa is frustrating and alienating what should be a prized community"- SA institute of Race Relations.
With the establishment of ties between apartheid South Africa and Taiwan (officially the Republic of China), Taiwanese (as well as some Hong Kong Chinese) started migrating to South Africa from the late 1970s onwards. Due to apartheid South Africa's desire to attract their investment in South Africa and the many poorer Bantustans within the country, they were exempt from many apartheid laws and regulations. This created an odd situation whereby South Africans of Chinese descent continued to be classified as Coloureds or Asians, whereas the Taiwanese Chinese and certain other east Asian expatriates (esp. South Koreans and Japanese) were considered "honorary whites" and enjoyed most, if not all, of the rights accorded to White South Africans.
Under apartheid, some Chinese South Africans were discriminated against in various forms by the apartheid government. However, they were originally excluded from benefiting under the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) programs of the new South African government. This changed in mid-2008 when, in a case brought by the Chinese Association of South Africa, the Pretoria division of the High Court of South Africa ruled that Chinese South Africans who were South African citizens before 1994, as well as their descendants, qualify as previously disadvantaged individuals as Coloureds, and therefore are eligible to benefit under BEE and other affirmative action policies and programs. The Chinese Association of South Africa was represented by human rights lawyer George Bizos in court during the case.[40] However, Chinese South Africans who immigrated to the country after 1994 will be ineligible to benefit under the policies. In September 2015, Department of Trade and Industry deputy director general Sipho Zikode clarified who the ruling was meant to benefit. He said that not all Chinese in South Africa were eligible for BEE. He confirmed that only Chinese who were South African citizens prior to 1994, numbering "about 10,000" were eligible.
Ah well, just a little bit of insight into our troubled race and cultural melting pot.
In any event, in our global village, just about anything is possible these days!
Originally posted by noelcmn 
and the (justified) skepticism is more akin to its citizens 
Post #42705 by Bud
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