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Sandra Laing is a South African woman who was born to white Afrikaner parents but was classified as "Coloured" under the country's apartheid system. She was born in 1955 in Piet Retief, South Africa, and was raised in a white family. She was not aware of her racial identity until she was 10 years old, when she was removed from her family and placed in a reform school. Laing's story was the subject of the 2010 film Skin, which was based on her life. She has since become an advocate for racial equality and has spoken out against the injustices of apartheid. Laing is 65 years old. She is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs approximately 140 pounds. She has brown eyes and black hair. Laing is currently single. She has two children from a previous relationship. Laing has worked as a domestic worker and a cleaner. She is currently a motivational speaker and an advocate for racial equality. Laing's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her work as a motivational speaker and her advocacy work.

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 26 November, 1955
Birthday 26 November
Birthplace Piet Retief, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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Who Is Sandra Laing's Husband?

Her husband is Petrus Zwane (m. ?–1979)

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Parents Sannie Laing Abraham Laing
Husband Petrus Zwane (m. ?–1979)
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Children Elsie Zwane, Henry Zwane, Steve Motlaung, Jenny Zwane, Prins, Anthony

Sandra Laing Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Sandra Laing worth at the age of 69 years old? Sandra Laing’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from South Africa. We have estimated Sandra Laing's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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2009

The publicity helped Laing, her husband and family gain new housing; they now live in Leachville, new estates east of Johannesburg. In 2009, it was reported that Laing's brothers still refused to see her. She has said in interviews with The Guardian and Little White Lies that she continued to hope they would some day have a change of heart.

2008

Laing was the subject of the 2008 biographical dramatic film Skin, directed by Anthony Fabian, which won numerous awards. In addition, she is the subject of the documentaries In Search of Sandra Laing (1977), directed by Anthony Thomas for the BBC, which was banned by the apartheid government of the time, Sandra Laing: A Spiritual Journey (2000), and Skin Deep: The Story of Sandra Laing (2009).

2000

In 2000 the Johannesburg Times tracked down Laing to learn about her years since the end of apartheid. The newspaper helped her find her mother, and they were able to Reconcile. Sannie was then in a nursing home. Sannie and the two shared time together before her mother's death in 2001.

1980

Laing and her husband separated due to the pressures they were under, and she put their children into government care for a period. Years later she married again, to Johannes Motloung, a Sotho-speaking man. They had three children together and she was able to reclaim her first two; all are now grown and with families of their own. Trying to Reconcile with her family in the 1980s, Laing learned that her father had died and her mother Sannie refused to see her.

1966

After the publicity, Laing found herself shunned by the white community, although she was re-classified as white again in 1966 when the law was changed to allow a person to be Classified as white if both parents are Classified as white. She attended a coloured boarding school away from her family and became immersed in the non-white world. Her only friends were the children of black employees. At the age of 16, Laing eloped to Swaziland with Petrus Zwane, a black South African who spoke Zulu. She was jailed for three months for illegal border-crossing. Her father threatened to kill her for the marriage and broke off contact with her. They never met again.

1960

Sandra's parents fought several legal battles to have her Classified as white, based on her documented ancestry through them. Her father underwent a blood-typing test for paternity in the 1960s, as DNA tests were not yet available. The results were compatible with his being her biological father, though such tests are extremely imprecise due to the small number of blood types that most people have.

1955

Sandra Laing (born 26 November 1955) is a South African woman who was Classified as coloured by authorities during the apartheid era, due to her skin colour and hair texture, although she was the child of at least three generations of ancestors who had been regarded as white. At the age of 10, she was expelled from her all-white school, and the authorities' decisions based on her appearance disrupted her family and adult life.

Sandra Laing was born in 1955 to Sannie and Abraham Laing, Afrikaners in Piet Retief, a small conservative town in South Africa during the apartheid era, when laws governed officially established social castes of racial classification. She had darker skin than other members of her family, which seemed to become more obvious as she grew older. Her parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were all white, but Sandra displayed the physiognomy of African ancestors of earlier generations, perhaps from the 18th century or more recent. Her family treated her as white, the same as their sons Adriaan and Leon, and together they all attended the Dutch Reformed Church.