Languages of South Africa

Processes of democratisation and decentralisation in the early 1990s in Africa have transformed the practices of power and authority on a local level. A closer look at the African political landscape reveals the existence of other forms of institutions that operate at the same level as the state and are contemporaries of its institutions, but can be “either rivals, watchdogs, parasites or servants” of state institutions (Ferguson 2014, p. 59). Lund (2006) terms these “twilight institutions”;…

too (Noah 66). My mom, Trevor’s mom, and millions of black mothers are determined that their children will not grow up and need to pay the black tax. People all around the world start life at zero and work their way up, but for black people in South Africa, America, and other countries that suffer from systematic racism, this is not the case. The African American community continues to be victims of the black tax. The Black Tax is essentially black families not being able to “start at zero”…

the Xhosa Wars, also known as the Cape Frontier Wars, or “Africa’s 100 years war”, were a series of nine wars between the Xhosa tribes and European settlers in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa (Jay, 2010). The Frontier or Xhosa Wars stretched over the time range from 1779 to 1879. According to South African History Online, the ever-changing frontiers of the Eastern Cape, was to be the set for a truly epochal smash between two worlds. These two worlds are the “white and European,…

Politics OF Fear, Equality and Quest of Equal National Labyrinth in Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Thesis statement: Toni Morrison’s fiction probe the quest of ideals of equality misshaped by the dominant "Whiteness" and aspires for ideals like social equality and independent home once distorted by their white masters in U.S. culture that ultimately negated the blacks as beings having life and soul dwelling their identity based upon fear of extinction and slavery. Introduction: Toni Morrison in her…

struggle to end the Apartheid regime which had plagued South Africa for many years with little hope of ever subsiding. Despite his passing, he remains a key figure to the eventual success in South Africa’s long struggle for freedom, and continues to live on in the memory of the nation he served to accomplish its democracy. Rolihlahla Madiba Dalibhunga Mandela, known globally as Nelson Mandela, was born in a small rural village in South Africa named Mvezo in the Qunu district, on July 18th, 1918…

The inspiring and courageous leader Nelson Mandela, originally called Rolihlahla Mandela, was born on July 18, 1918, in the small village of Mvezo, by the Mbashe River in Transkei, South Africa. In his tribe, the Thembu tribe, his father Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa was chief. That is until he died of lung cancer when Mandela was only 9 years old. As a favor for his father, Chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo, the acting regent of the Thembu people, adopted Mandela. He was forced to move to Mqhekezweni, the…

Racism is very real in our world across all races. Black women in Africa live every day trying to be unnoticed, walking a fine line of invisibility but wishing for freedom. Feeling lost is all they have known and, most likely, all they ever will know. For the whites in Cape Town, life is simple and straightforward. For…

Vanessa Yu Mrs. DiMaggio AP Language In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee tells a powerful story through the narrative of a young girl. The author conveys that possessing the qualities of morality, sympathy and courage, a person can overcome a prejudiced and racist society and find the good in the most unlikely and unexpected people. The author establishes her purpose using characterization and pathos. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, a small town in…

The Jim Crow laws were laws of physical segregation in the south based strictly on race. Black people and white people could not attend the same schools, the same public places or public transportation. The segregation led to the concept of “separate but equal.” The “separate but equal” concept led to poorer conditions…

Supreme Court said, "Laws which keep the races apart do not mean that one race is better or worse than the other" but in reality, that was exactly what it meant. Blacks were soon seen as a second-rate race, and this was not only in the South. Although Northern states had no official Jim Crow laws, racism spread throughout the whole country. In 1916, US President Wilson, the most powerful man in the world, said, "Segregation is not humiliating and is a benefit for you…