Afrikaner

Now looking back at age seven and forty, I know that every person has an amazing story filled with tears – filled with joy – filled with anger – filled with boredom and filled with passion... Let your story be told, if you will not tell it who will? The best is the now-story and this is the story in the making so enjoy every minute of your life Speak words of prophecy and blessing over your future life story. Some stories are better because the storyteller has completed the art of storytelling…

The two films, To Live and A Dry White Season, only depicted two of the repressive regimes that that took place in the last century. However, there were many other governments and government systems that were very oppressive during their reign. One such system worth noting is Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s Cuban Communist Party in Cuba. The History Channel describes Castro’s rule as, “Marxist-Leninist… he limited the amount of land a person could own, abolished private business and presided over…

Pienaar in the field, that the win was not possible without 63,000 South Africans support in the arena. Pienaar differs ‘not just 63,000 South Africans, we had 43 million South Africans behind us.’ It is a very powerful message coming from a White Afrikaner and a moment to declare to the world that they are ultimately united. Accordingly, this illustrates Mandela’s ultimate aim of reconciling South Africa is virtually accomplished. Mandela and Pienaar exemplify their effective leadership, who…

A Policeman: Sgt Willcox One Policeman, Sgt Willcox, gives his views of his opinions in relation to the actions and protest of the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand. At the time of the tour in 1981 Sgt Willcox's view of the tour was either pro tour or anti-tour but instead preferring to stay neutral. He stated “I didn’t really associate myself on any side of the tour”. Rather later saying that the tour was inevitable due to everything being uncivilised. Also he found that the tour was ‘New…

Individualism sets many Americans apart from the rest of the world in how they conduct themselves. Everyone takes care of themselves, and no obligation is to be placed on another, nor is anyone to expect anything from peers. This mindset derived from the first Americans who were strong enough to break away from their homelands to look for a better life and opportunity elsewhere. They counted on themselves and not on governments for protection and provision. (Estes, 2012) American managers are…

The theme of fear and paranoia presented in Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee, apparent in the white population of the frontier town, lies in the ever present idea that black people are inherently evil and should be avoided at all times. This idea presented by Coetzee, stems from the similar mentality present in what was then, current day South Africa. It can be proved that this idea was merely formed from paranoia, with little substantial evidence to prove the dark side of the black…

They call you Mister Steve Biko now you’re dead this is the poem that I have chosen. In this essay I am going to be explaining the meaning of the poem and also what effects it has on me. I am also going to give the reader an overview of Steve Biko. As Gabeba Baderoon has said in his statement poetry is an element that has given the suppressed a voice even more so during Apartheid when people were suppressed. The poem about Steve Biko is an extraordinary example of someone making his voice heard…

immigrants made their way up north to find their own land after the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area. The Dutch settlers were known as Afrikaners, or Boers (farmers) to the British. When diamonds were discovered in 1867 and gold in 1886, they encouraged wealth and immigration while increasing suppression to the native population. Although the Afrikaners battled the British and were defeated in the Second South African War in 1899-1902, they came together under the Union of South Africa…

Since the Dutch immigrants who migrated to South Africa had a larger proportion of Huntington’s disease, there is currently a greater proportion of the Dutch Afrikaner population with Huntington’s compared to the Holland Dutch2. Such evidence proves that powerful effect of random evolutionary mechanisms in making neurological traits common among a population. From this evidence, it is possible to extrapolate that…

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…