Mivuyo Kamati ,50789414

Growing in a small town in the Eastern Cape and then leaving to a big city made me experience a lot of stereotyoing,othering and misinformation.I first went to boarding school(primary school) in the Eastern Cape then went to high school in the mother city , Johannesburg. Being a black girl from the Eastern Cape was hard.People in Johannesburg already have the idea that the eastern cape is full of farms and just animals roaming aroung (which they are in SOME parts of the Eastern Cape.

I remember having to introduce myself on the first day, I got weird looks from the students after they found out where i was from,even the black kids . They asked me things like "How is your english so good if you're from there?". Someone(a black student)  even asked me how I'm so neat if im went to school there.The craziest part is that in primary, my boarding school was one of the best schools where white people even attended . It was in Grahamstown a town known for having the best schools even university wise, it is home to Rhodes University and that alone says alot.People,of all colours, have this misinformation about the Eastern Cape.Some haven't even been to the Eastern Cape,they also just "heard" these things.It didn't get better.

What made it sad and painful for me was that people questioned my knowledge and education that my mom worked hard to give me just because they heard stories about the Eastern Cape.At the end of my high school career they had a different perception on the Eastern Cape because i worked hard and was actually not as dumb as they expect black kids from the Eastern Cape to be.I just wish people stopped judging and making assumptions of people based on where they're from.Evwn if the whole Eastern Cape was just farms and animals running around,that doesnt mean our education standard was any less.