But they weren’t fast - getting to Australia would take 10 days. That's a lot of time to look out of that window.
A curious British airship experimentBefore apartheid, there were areas of South Africa that were not segregated by race. Victor Mokine lived in one of them. Sophiatown was home to black, white, mixed-race, Chinese and Indian people. But it was the first in a series of forced removals on the pretext of preserving racial harmony. And Victor remembers it. He was 10. Nelson Mandela had given a speech saying the time for passive resistance was over. But when he realised how heavily armed the police were likely to be, he advised residents not to resist. Victor told us he remembers being woken up early one morning by the sound of horses' hooves. When he eventually went outside he realised that 2,000 police had descended on the sleeping neighbourhood.
The town destroyed to stop black and white people mixing
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