Kathie - Dora Taylor, Nosipho Majeke

Two sisters: one dark, one fair - torn apart by the colour of their skin. Kathie was born as dark as her Cape Coloured father. This was a social disaster in the eyes of her mother and near-white grandmother, who rejoice when Kathie's new baby sister Stella is fair skinned. Nothing is going to stop them propelling Stella into Cape Town's privileged white world. Kathie adores her little sister, but only when Stella is sent to a white school does Kathie learn, with a terrible sense of shock, that she is 'different' from her sister. While Stella strives to join the white world, Kathie throws herse. Kathie - Dora Taylor, Nosipho Majeke. Penguin 2008. ISBN 9780143025696