Apartheid

In Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country, three books depict the separation between the blacks and the whites, and use the land to exemplify the interactions between the two races. Paton’s use of symbols and metaphors connected to the land, convey the tarnished social and human conditions displayed throughout the book. In this portion of the book, the most prominent metaphor of the land is how it becomes more barren and lifeless because the natives leave the countryside for the more…

he definitely would have forgiven Karl. His reasoning for this comes from his experience with apartheid in South Africa. During that time, many people in South Africa were tortured, abducted, and/or killed because of the extreme racial tensions. Nelson Mandela, the president of South Africa at the time Tutu wrote his response, had been imprisoned for twenty-seven years because he spoke out against apartheid. Mandela, along with many of the loved ones of the people who were abused and killed,…

Social movements are about ensuring political equality, about creating positive change and about ensuring social justice. Discussions in class have enhanced my point of view about social movements and how they are the mainstay of any successful democracy. If it were not for the Abolition movement, Women’s Suffrage movement or the 1960s Civil Rights movement, this country would not have progressed and evolved the way it has. These movements resulted in transforming the country into a better…

Throughout life one goes through significant experiences that can influence their identity or sense of self while also shaping their outlook on their role within a larger society. This has been studied and recorded for decades. While studying this, many scholars have found how an individual and a society can depend on each other. At the same time, scholars have also found that the two can live without depending on each other. Two literature pieces that can be used to study the relationship…

Over the years, speakers use different ways to impact people and change history. Throughout time speeches and subjects have changed but the way they are presented hasn’t, it only differs in the situations of the time. There are many different ways people have been able to change history. Few people have given influential speeches for their own benefits however, there have been speeches that molded history because of the persuasion, presentation and purpose. Many historical figures have used…

Violent Accounts, written by Robert Kraft, is partially focused on the inner workings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a committee created after the apartheid-induced violence in various parts of Africa. The goal of the commission was to bring reconciliation and healing to the parts of Africa that suffered great acts of violence. It aimed to bring the country back together as one rather than keep it separated and founded on vengeance and violence. An essential step of Truth and…

turning it into a constant action throughout the story. In Once Upon a Time, Gordimer used quite a few symbols to support the theme of fear: the wall around the family’s complex, the little boy, and the grandmother. The wall represented division apartheid, the little boy was the innocence caught in the crossfire, and the grandmother was the one who stimulated the parents decision for being separated from others. Ultimately, in the end though, the little boy dies ironically from the security…

Abraham Maslow proposed the humanistic approach that focuses on the “psychological needs for love, self esteem, belonging, self expression, creativity and spirituality” (Coon and Mitterer, 2008), Maslow regards these needs as being basic like our need for food and water. At the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is self actualisation; which means the potential to be the best that we can be. Below that is esteem needs, then the need for love and belonging, the need for safety and psychological…

to South Africa in search of employment opportunities with over 260 000 labour migrants in 1970 (Crush et al., 2005). However, during the apartheid regime in South Africa, citizens were not allowed to travel across international boundaries so as foreign visitors were not allowed to enter the country (Boyd, 1989; Makina, 2012b; Chereni, 2014). The post-apartheid period was a huge turn around for the nationals and the South African government allowed foreign visitors to migrate to South Africa.…

of danger, which may or may not always be correct. In South Africa, during the apartheid, the separation of black and white people made the fear between both races more prominent. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton shows the fear characters have as they explore the city of Johannesburg. Throughout the novel, specific examples of fear are brought up to observe the life of black and white people during the apartheid. Let's look at some examples. Throughout the novel, just as Alan Patton…