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[ancianita]

64. Right, but that doesn't mean what people think.

SA's apartheid laws in his and his parents' day classified Asians as "Coloureds".

Which meant that they didn't have as strict segregation and poor treatment as Africans, but they also were segregated and discriminated against.
Later, East Asians from Taiwan and Hong Kong were designated "honorary whites."

I learned about this in Freedom Park in Praetoria, in their interactive museum, as powerful an experience as the Holocaust Museum in DC, if not moreso.

What's puzzling is that Soon-Shiong got into and graduated from Witwatersrand in 1975, but the apartheid govt didn't change any other Chinese folks' legal designation until the 1984 Group Areas Act, where they could only live among whites by asking permission of the whites in "Whites Only" designated areas.
To get into Witwatersrand, he must have made quite an interesting case to authorities, because he's obviously brilliant, if not genius.