d before 1949 had to get their marriages annulled and others who chose to stay together faced difficulty of fitting into different worlds. Also, some people felt that they were classified into the wrong race and 10,000 appealed against their classification in the early 1950s. Most failed but many succeeded in their attempt to a better, less-restricted life. However, not all reclassifications were for the better. People could challenge the race of other people and in some cases, neighbours who did not get along well took this opportunity and submitted claims that a white person residing in their street looked coloured. The saddest cases, however, were of people who fell in love with someone of another colour. In 1954, Graham du Proft, a 19 year old coloured boy threw himself in front of a train in a fit of depression at not being able to marry his pregnant Afrikaner girlfriend. Children who were reclassified a different colour from their families also resulted in tragedies. In 1953, while attending an Afrikaner school, Sandra Laing, who was bor
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