Afrikaner

Booker Prize winner and J.M. Coetzee masterpiece, Disgrace, published in 1999 “seems to be a book about endings: the end of rape, the end of morality, and the end of humanity meaning" (Bandici). The novel takes place in the post-apartheid South Africa, where the internal pressures, the anger, the inequalities and the discrimination still haunt the country as the legacy of the previous political system. The controversy behind this novel and how it shows the complex transformation suffered by a…

How stereotypes played a role in A Lesson before Dying and The Help The characters in A Lesson before Dying and The Help experience the negative effects of stereotyping. Throughout both novels we see how rules and laws were used against coloured people simply based on the fact that they were coloured, we take a look at how blacks were treated when it came to a crime taking place or being solved and lastly we see the negative effects that how blacks were treated can have on a character. In this…

Question 1 The invasion of the Americas was a long drawn out process. It took many years for a successful attempt was made at colonizing the Americas. Starting with the Spanish and Cortes, in 1519, an attempt was made by the Spanish conquistadors to take over Tenochtitlan. The conquistadors were primarily around to steal money and goods and split it with the Spanish government. Cortes took along with him, eleven ships, five hundred men, and thirteen horses to the Yucatan try and conquer the…

When one thinks “Netherlands”, they think windmills, biking, open drug use, and the city of Amsterdam. If all goes well, in the future, people will think ‘Supligen’ when they think about the country. The energy drink is able to fit in consummately with the active citizens of the Netherlands, is an incredible way to promote Supligen and converge profit, and is an exceptional beverage for the health-observant Dutch. With Supligen gracing the grocery store shelves, the Netherlands will shine!…

Task 1 Why is he a role model for so many people in the word? Mandela got prisoned in South Africa under the Apartheid regime because of his political opinions. But that was not the only reason. It was because of his skin color, because he was a black man with strong opinions. This was not allowed in the country in that period, because the leaders were afraid of black people with strong voices. The way Nelson Mandela is a role model for so many people in the world, must be of his forgiveness.…

Nadine Gordimer, an anti-apartheid activist and writer from South Africa, uses her short story, “Once Upon a Time,” to critique the racist political system. This critique is, however, cloaked within a children’s tale – a bedtime story of sorts. After all, as Thomas C. Foster points out in his book, How to Read Literature like a Professor, “Overtly political writing can be one-dimensional, simplistic, reductionist, preachy, dull” (117). Gordimer’s attack on apartheid is anything but dull. As the…

During the worst years of apartheid, from 1990 to 1994, in only four years, there were 14,000 casualties and 22,000 injuries. Although blacks were the vast majority of South Africa from 1948 to 1994, they only allocated thirteen percent of all land and had significantly less doctors and teachers per person. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane, also known as Johannes, takes place in South Africa where he grew up under the laws of apartheid with his family. Mathabane and his family lived in a two room…

hatred between the two races. Apartheid began because the two races had very different views on living; Afrikaners began to believe that they were superior to the black people in South Africa. Due to the Afrikaans perspective, Afrikaans nationalism was enhanced because they thoroughly believed that the segregation had to take place because God wanted to set the Boer Nation apart. Afrikaners even believed that they were direct decedents of the Israeli Nation, in other words “the chosen nation…

The nationalism amongst Afrikaners increased at the same rate as the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation during the two world war period and even more so due to the increased imperialistic influence in South Africa by the British. Afrikaners promoted a common language, history and unity of a common religion and beliefs, the main promoters of this ideology were the Afrikaner middle class consisting of academics, farmers, pastors etc. to whom many…

an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. Imperialism played a major role in the novel The Power of One. The Boer war is mentioned numerous times in the novel along with the separation of Afrikaners, English, and the African tribes. The first time the separation became apparent in the novel was when Peekay was purchasing his tackies before his train ride to Barberon. “Above this entrance was written BLACKS ONLY.” After researching the…