Afrikaans Essay

Introduction I was asked to do a reflective paper on the sociological-, anthropological, and theological perspective on diversity. I had to make use of these perspectives to reflect on my past experience of engaging with individuals with a class, culture or background different from my own. This is followed by how these perspectives influenced my view on diversity and how this will affect future relationships. Is it really that difficult to understand others that are different from us? Maybe…

Education Power is productive it is a means of producing the truth and it cannot be conceived of as separate from knowledge (Braham & Janes, 2002). It is well documented that education is power and if one is educated chances of progressing up the income hierarchy are higher there by over coming the income inequality. Thus to come back to our societies reflected in medium, the apartheid and the Jim Crow systems forced blacks to attend different schools from the whites. The black schools were…

According to article from A and E history in 1976 thousands of children in a small town called Soweto demonstrated against the Afrikaans language requirement for black African students, because of this police opened fire with bullets and tear gas (A+E Networks Digital, 2015). This caused a national uproar, and it opened the door for protestors of the apartheid to call out for their…

Although it is because of colonialism that European frameworks are applied to the African context with regard to the majority of domains and areas of political structure, it is however, this same process that overlooked and put aside the African perspective and worldview when it comes to what is considered as psychology. Therefore, it can be said that the African countries, including South Africa, benefited in some aspects from colonialism, and that on the other end of the stick, colonialism has…

A : SPORT AS A UNIFIER 1. I believe that sporting events contribute significantly to unifying a nation. Sporting events are a great form of entertainment and attract huge audiences around the world. Spectators either gather at stadiums to watch live events or watch socially on their TV’s. Sports brings out admirable qualities in people such as mutual respect, team play, discipline and fair play. Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black President, used sport as a method to unify the…

“Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings” (Nelson Mandela). This quote explains that like poverty, racism is controlled by our people in society. Racial discrimination started in America with the slavery of African-Americans and our outlook on them led to many problems in our history. Racial discrimination is a problem in many other countries like South Africa whose government believes in apartheid. In Harper Lee’s…

Steve Biko was born on the 18th of December in 1946 in Tylden. After matriculating from high school, Biko had initially intended to be a lawyer but changed to medicine as studying law was associated with political activism. In 1965, while studying medicine at the University of Natal, Biko was elected into the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) and became involved in the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) (Martin, 2012: 123). According to Martin (2012:123) during this time…

When performing any kind of research it is the idea of the writer to project what they have seen or read and through this information help guide those reading it have an understanding of what is being portrayed. The writer should know who his or her audience is in order to ensure that the correct information is provided. The project for this paper will be on the country South Africa which geographically is positioned on the south most tip of the African continent. South African has a very…

Human rights are one of the basic rights that people are born with regardless of their gender, race, religion, nationality, and social status. Nowadays, people take human rights as granted; however, history shows that human rights are earned instead of given. Many bloody and costly conflicts occurred in the past were actually caused by discriminations against race, religion and sex. Without being too sensitive about contentious topics, one has to admit the fact that Africans suffered the most…

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, is about a reverend who takes his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959. However, the novel is only narrated by the mother and the four daughters instead of their father, the reverend. The Poisonwood Bible has many biblical allusions throughout the novel. Even the characters in the novel allude to their biblical character counterpart. One of the daughters, Adah Price, in the novel has many similarities with the character Adah from the bible. Both of them…