Afrikaans

Wat maak jy? Right now, you are probably thinking that I forgot to use spell check, but the reality is that this is another language. The language is called Afrikaans, and it is a language that I can speak little but understand quite a lot of. This phrase in a literal translation means “what make you?” in a proper sentence it would say “What are you doing?” I plan to show how through personal experience how speaking and being submerged into two different languages can change the way you can see…

Living in a household in which his father fears that Mandela’s election will “drive us [Afrikaans] into the sea”, a sentiment echoed by the white rugby coach’s declaration in the film’s opening sequence that Mandela’s election has sent South Africa “to the dogs”, Pienaar’s openness to Mandela’s invitation to work together for South Africa culminates…

inevitably come with life, the human race would have no true desire to change things, for example, their lives, even if some factors certainly need adjusting. In Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, the Europeans in South Africa, also known as Afrikaans, were extremely unwilling to change the government structure and laws simply due to the fact that they were content with how things played out in their favor. They had absolutely everything they ever wanted available to them, but disregarded…

Body Paragraph: Topic Sentence: The reason why your thesis is true or the area or perspective of the research question being investigated- In every postcolonial country there are people being born who have never seen oppressive rule, and have always been independent. (1D) The question, is how do you teach these people as children about colonialism. Has it been easier before or after postcolonialism? This perspective will be examined in the contexts of South Africa, India, and the Middle East.…

Denis) Mandela was a controversial figure. He spent his days breaking rocks into gravel. At night he worked on his LLB degree. Newspapers were forbidden from Mandela. Mandela attended Christian Sunday services, but studied Islam. He also studied Afrikaans hoping to build respect for them. While he was in prison, he was forbidden from attending his first born son or mother’s funeral. Mandela performed hard labor. He received the lowest level of treatment because of his skin color. Mandela was…

that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa”-Oliver Tambo . Apartheid can be defined as the racial-social ideology developed in South Africa during the 20th century, its name means “separation” in Afrikaans, the mother tongue of the colonisers. Apartheid was practically based on racial segregation, as well as race domination or superiority. It was about political and economic discrimination, which excluded black; coloured; Indian and white…

similar-sized “small-spotted genet” since they share the same South African habitat (76). Felis nigripes is referred to by both black-footed cat and small-spotted cat, depending on authority preference. It is also known in the South African language of Afrikaans as miershooptier, or anthill tiger, from its method of creating burrows in abandoned termite mounds (76). Description The black-footed cat is one of the smallest felines…

apartheid in South Africa and segregation in America. In both instances, white people have tried to limit African Americans. Each case has had a significant effect on history and has led to different freedom movements around the world. Apartheid, the Afrikaans word for apartness, was a systemic segregation that “disenfranchised the black South African majority and subjected them to officially mandated inequalities in education, employment, legal status, and police protection,” (Austin 450). In…

accident. Many suffered from depression. The profitable Karoo farm is in ruin. This got me reflecting further on this bushman curse rippling down the decades. How life becomes death. I spent hours going through all our old family photos, right from Afrikaans great great grandfathers in the voortrekker days and listening to both my grannies stories of their past. My one gran is a writer and I read some of her early notes on her childhood. I played with elements of Bushmen writing and how this…

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