Colonialism In South Africa

Power of race Research the history of colonialism on South Africa to find out how white peoples came to be in power in that country and how this inequality shapes the central conflict in the novel. Discuss, legal, social and economic inequalities. What does Matthee wants readers to understand about the relationship between race and power? Introduction: Country that made efforts to colonize South Africa included Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Colonization effort brought a sense of competitiveness to existing tribes that led to random outbreaks of violence between the whites and the African tribes. Assignment for Dutch east India company to trade. Then things happened between British and Dutch they …show more content…
South Africa is one of its most unequal country. The Dutch and the British both first settle in South Africa as a way of trading with India more easily. Multiracial social order base on supremacy of European colonists morer slaves black farmer outnumbered the whites. “ he had made up his mind, Lukas was going to work on the beams, when he was twelve years old. He has already been helping his father cut wood for a long time. If he taught Lukas and it went well, they’ll might have some money to spare to change.”(Matthee 111). This quote from the novel opened up a solutions for is to say that Elias wanted his children to grow up and work for him and like he don’t have to worry about the things he need, so he could just relax and let his children work and give him what he need and his will. He told Nina to go work at a town to earn some money so Elias could buy a gun and hunts Bigfoot. To me that’s not equal to his children, cause he isn’t the one that earns the money and he wanted the money only for himselfs is like his children have to work for him to get his will like an economic inequality. Even though Lukas was the same color as Elias he still have to work for him Elias and give him his will. But when Lukas was with Fiela he was more happy with a different color mom even though he have to work and help out the family, he was still happy. Sometimes your color doesn’t define who you really are. Like Lukas he felt …show more content…
They didn’t have legal right to colonize the land but they had more power so they overpowered the native people of Africa. The colonial people build their educations and economic system and legal system into South Africa. But as you can tell, there was hatred and racial inequality rights, everyday social life are like normal society but the black didn’t have right like the white do. They work as laborers and farmer, laws and system was set up to maintain peace between black and white. Africans was control by other type of race on their own land and they had to work to be the back definition of a built up nations. That’s like an economic inequality, while white are getting golds and diamonds. The Africans had to work as laborer to find the those valuable resource and jewelry. The African wasn’t educated enough to know something valuable was on there own land. And power is being control base on race , white were more educated, more powerful so they had more rights to do as they will. Even if there wasn’t race there would still be power upon each other. Even relatives hate each other like their own kind because one wants to over power others and be better than the other like life is a competition of powers. So including race in this world would cause more hatred between