In 1960 during the height of institutionalised apartheid in South Africa, this man from White River found himself in a terrible predicament. After fleeing his homeland in Eastern Europe where he participated illegally in the unsuccessful Hungarian Uprising of 1956 against the communist government of the time, he yet again found himself on the wrong side of the law. According to a court report in The Lowvelder of 17 November 1960, the man was charged for contravening the Immorality Act due to his relationship with his sweetheart at the time. She was classified as a coloured woman and in 1960 this was against the law.
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