Soweto

police. One incident in particular occurred at Sharpeville in March 1960 where of a crowd of 5000 protestors, 69 were killed and several were injured. Other groups would seldom rise but one particularly mentioned by Mathabane was on account of the Soweto school riots in…

“Brace face”, “You are ugly”, “Ugly duckling”, “You are fat”, “You are stupid”,” You are too thin”, “Weirdo”. These are just some of the comments that primary or high school learners come across when being bullied. Some of the above mentioned comments are from personal experiences I’ve had growing up. I was between the ages of 11-13 when I was bullied in Primary school. The first reason is, my front teeth used to stick out due to an underdeveloped jaw. Secondly, I had gone back to mainstream…

into hiding, as government officials began to hunt for him. He was captured in 1964, and sentenced to life in prison but still continued his dreams of a free Africa. Protests and killings still continued in South Africa with the 1976 protests in Soweto and Sharpeville producing the most fatalities. The fight of the apartheid spread across the world and in 1990, Nelson Mandela was finally released from prison after 27 years. The release signaled the end of the apartheid and he was later…

World War II and the atrocities that occurred due to the overbearingly anti-Semitic ideals of the German government and its social majority made the world hypersensitive to other acts of subjugation based on race in years following. The issue of racist legislation in South Africa was brought to, and discussed in, the United Nations in 1952, 6 years after India first voiced its concerns for the treatment of Indian people living in the nation. The South African government objected to any UN…

When an individual goes through a transition it usually affects each person differently as many obstacles can prevent them from having a successful change. It will involve challenges to face and difficulties to overcome, which is evident in Willey Russell’s drama play ‘Educating Rita’ and Slam Poetry of The Streets: ‘CAPITAL LETTERS’ by Omar Musa at TEDxSydney ‘Educating Rita’ consists of two characters: Frank and Rita. Frank is from the mid-upper class, the individuals who have tertiary…

others in their race (mostly the lower class blacks, which were the majority), and even fight to keep apartheid intact because of the privileges they’d receive. There was also black people selling each other out for gain. During the rebellions in Soweto, Mathabane noted that “black informers began to mushroom all over the place.” He said that to stay alive, black people had to sell each other out to the white man (Mathabane, 264). Plus, apartheid made everything harder for black people. A good…

The emphasis in this movement was on mobilizing women for the struggle. The Black Consciousness movement was supported by young people and in a town called Soweto where hundreds were killed. The people that followed the Black Consciousness movement and the ones that followed the ANC waged war against each other. • military government Military regimes were found in much of Latin America, Africa, and the Middle…

under whose direction was the first production of the play performed. Littlewood is also the reason Delaney is listed here, among authors whose work was influenced by Brecht. A Taste of Honey is a great example of how theatrical styles can coincide even within one piece of art, and take inspiration and features from one another. Nadine Holdsworth described how this theory is imprinted in A Taste of Honey, saying that Joan Littlewood together with the actors would make several changes and…

The Black Tax “The Black Tax” was never really on my radar, until I read Born A Crime. In Born A Crime, Trevor discusses how his mother had to “pay” the black tax and as a result, made me realize my own mother continues to pay the black tax 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,…

today, its not hard to find some similarities. The difference may be that there aren’t any laws that have this in place, it occurs naturally. A very rich history is uncovered through the image, a window to the dark unforgotten past from the depths of Soweto. Racial discrimination is embedded and intertwined with the history of the world, school curriculum teaches the horrors of an apartheid regime. This simple picture of sign demonstrates this but, is racial segregation on the come up, will…