Benazzi’s try would have changed South Africa’s history

“I was born in Africa and I also suffered from racism. In my early years in France, I couldn’t get away from it. Racism is like a rape that touches your soul and marks you all your life.” – Abdelatief Benazzi

Telford Vice / Cape Town

TWO words to freeze the blood of South Africans of a certain mindset: Abdelatief Benazzi. Twenty years on, those words still unsettle and disturb us.

Twenty years on, Benazzi, speaking exclusively to Rapport from New Zealand, where he was for France’s tou...