Cyril James, a coloured man, was born and raised in the slums of South Africa in 1945. He was educated at a primary school named St. Theresa’s in Sydenham, Durban. At the age of fo...lihat lebih banyakCyril James, a coloured man, was born and raised in the slums of South Africa in 1945. He was educated at a primary school named St. Theresa’s in Sydenham, Durban. At the age of fourteen, he left school after doing his Standard 5 and went to work at Durban Harbour, cleaning the cargo holds of ships after they had been offloaded.
He became a seaman, working as a cook, and when he left the sea, he worked at many leading hotels in the Durban and Cape Town until he felt the urge to go elsewhere.
For the next twenty-five years, he went into engineering, working as a piping material supervisor at many projects around South Africa and some other countries in Africa.
He is married to a coloured girl named Linda who is working with him.lihat lebih sedikit