ithra and tumelo are a blasian couple. tumelo is black and ithra is of mixed asian descent.levels of apartheid meant that mixed asian, indian and coloured people were often given preferences over black people, meaning that divisions were just like and white. lots of people are in interracial relationships? is everyone at it? there is more non—interracial relationships than interracial relationships. and friends, in our friends... within ourfriends, it's more interracial but it's more an indian person with a white person, not necessarily with a black person. there's no other blasian relationship in our class. not in our class, but i have seen some around here. our class is 300 people. around the school, one or two, but it's not common. it's not a common thing but it does happen. so our parents are meeting for the first time on saturday. my mum and stepdad and siblings and his mum and dad. i'm excited actually. tumelo, i don't know if he's teasing me but he says his mum's going to cook traditional food and it's going to be mopane worms — worms like, live worms i'm going to eat