When Raven Naidoo entered university in the 1980s, he couldn't study engineering because of his Indian ancestry. "I was only allowed into certain universities that didn't offer the courses I wanted," he says. "To become an engineer, I had to apply to the Minister of Education to get permission to study, and they said no." It was just one example of the absurd levels to which the previous apartheid government stooped in order to enforce the privileges of a white minority, he says.