BORN A CRIME Stories From A South African Childhood Trevor Noah John Murray 2016 288 Pages “Racism is a problem everywhere else in the world, in South Africa it is the law”. Under that law (now happily defunct) the birth of comedian Trevor Noah to a black Xhosa woman and white Swiss father was nothing less than a crime; an act punishable by a five-year prison sentence. But people being people, and the pull of individual personal attraction being too strong, even the stringent enforcement of Apartheid failed to prevent widespread race-mixing. This is something our caste panchayats , moral police and anti-“love jihad” activists should also seriously consider. Despite the best efforts of these sundry worthies, inter-religious, inter-regional and inter-caste marriages DO take place. And that’s besides the many Indians with spouses who are foreign nationals... The best way to puncture the absurdities of this essentially untenab...