May 1963 - My Skin Is Too White - The terrible curse

May 1963 - My Skin Is Too White - The terrible curse on Ivan Godfrey. In his own, Non-White bus queue, Ivan gets stares and giggles. In Non-White buses he is often taunted as a play-Coloured'. Blue-eyed Ivan Vincent Godfrey faces an ordeal every day of his life - because his skin is too light. For 25-year old Ivan, of Fordsburg, Johannesburg, is Coloured and wants to be accepted as Coloured - But few people will believe he's not White. Wherever he goes, people regard Ivan as White -and this almost wrecked his life. For nine years, since he left school, Ivan has been battling to find - and keep jobs. But every time he gets work, a racial busybody brings up the colour of Ivan's skin. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)

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