How did the apartheid divisions of “we and they” affect South Africans?
Source 1
William Modisane, better known as Bloke Modisane, was a South African writer, actor and journalist for Drum Magazine. He tried to promote non-racism in the arts by making concerts and theatre available to Black audiences and tried to further the efforts of the non-racial arts organisations. In 1959 he moved to England.In 1963, he published his autobiography Blame me on history. This detailed his despair at the bulldozing of Sophiatown, where he had lived and his frustration and anger with apartheid. As a result, the book was banned in 1966.
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Source 2
This is an extract from Ezekiel Mphahlele’s autobiography, Down Second Avenue. He shares some of his experiences as a child in Pretoria and his interactions with white children. We can see how black and white children saw each other differently and reacted differently to each other.
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Source 3
William Modisane, better known as Bloke Modisane, was a South African writer, actor and journalist for Drum Magazine. He tried to promote non-racism in the arts by making concerts and theatre available to Black audiences and tried to further the efforts of the non-racial arts organisations. In 1959 he moved to England. In 1963, he published his autobiography Blame me on history. This detailed his despair at the bulldozing of Sophiatown, where he had lived and his frustration and anger with apartheid. As a result, the book was banned in 1966.
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Source 4
Chris van Wyk, an anti-apartheid activist, writer and poet who was classified as “Coloured” during apartheid, explains the context of his poem, “My Mother”, in this extract from his autobiography, Shirley, Goodness and Mercy: A Childhood Memoir.
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Source 5
“P. W. Botha takes the salute at a military parade in Pretoria, November 1980. Before he became state president of South Africa in 1983, Botha headed the Ministry of Defense and later became prime minister in 1978. He is shown here with his close supporter General Magnus Malan, minister of Defense, on his left…”
