University student wins fight to change race classification

Cape Times 02 December 2022

After a personal journey of discovery, Aurora Krotoa Moses (21) successfully took on the University of South Africa (UNISA) when they refused to change her race classification from ‘Coloured’ to ‘African’, writes Nicola Daniels for the Cape Times.

Moses, a psychology and criminology student, said that while she started identifying as Khoisan in 2019 after a journey of personal discovery and research, it was a therapy session with her social worker in 2020 that sparked her will to stand up for herself and her identity.

“It’s been a journey; there was this module I did at UNISA, a political module about critical reasoning. It helped me to ask questions critically; why do I have this label? I did my research and went into history, my heritage.” The label ‘coloured’ did not sit well with her, she said, as she felt it robbed her of her African identity as an indigenous person.
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