Must see

The movie Skin
I had heard of this story a longtime ago and I think it is to be released this year. Of course i will see it since Sophie Okonedo stars.
it is the story of Sandra Laing born in 1955- she is a black girl born to white Afrikaner parents in South Africa back in the days of white rule and apartheid

It seems that her white father was her true father: blood tests showed that his blood matched hers. Sandra also looked too much like her brother Adriaan, who was white.

Although Sandra’s great grandparents were all white, someone in her family tree must have been passing for white, probably several people on both sides. Their genes came together in her. Most white Afrikaners are only about 89% white by blood.

For four years parents and teachers of the school pushed to have her kicked out. Then on March 10th 1966 the police came and took her out of the school: the government said she was no longer white in the eyes of the law but coloured (mixed-race).

For two years her father fought to have her changed back to white, taking it all the way to the Supreme Court. He won. But it did little good: few white schools would take her. Nine said no. Only a Roman Catholic school far away said yes. By then she had fallen too far behind in her studies and never caught up.

The story goes on from there...Terrible stuff...can't wait to see it.