I got a job after a grueling 18 months of studying at Tukkies. Before this I have never heard of a field of study called meteorology. With good reason too, because this was neatly reserved for Whites under apartheid, but vestiges of this mindset were evident well into the early 2000s. Our assignment at Tukkies was to complete, in 18 months, a BSc Honours degree in meteorology and thereafter the South African Weather Service will give us employment. There we were, 12 of us drawn from almost all provinces, Black BSc graduates and unemployed. An outrageous claim is made up to this day that, this country is bereft of Black youth with the right skills and potential. What palaver! This group of 12 students approached this foreign subject with so much enthusiasm, so much so that it was such a mystery as to why Blacks were denied such opportunities in the past. Some lecturers were needlessly hostile to us, but that would not dampen our spirits. In the end we enjoyed the course and each others...