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The Jack Bannk The struggle of The Jack Bank is less one for self-discovery than it is a journey in spite of it. Glen Retief is writing from a world of racial, political, religious, and sexual oppression, a world that inspires discrimination through violence. As a gay man, Retief is unable to break free from … Read more
Fiela’s Child is a fiction novel by South African writer Dalene Matthee. The narrative is set in the forests of Knysna, South Africa. This novel follows the story of Fiela Komoetie and her family. Fiela is a black South African, and everyday she work hard to provide for her family, attending to her farm, and … Read more
I would like to express my strong interest for participation in your Semester Exchange Programme in the summer of 2019. I see this as an opportunity gain valuable experience outside my comfort zone and look forward to the prospect of an exciting next step in the development of my career. Currently I’m an under-graduate diploma … Read more
Healthcare is something that every single person requires access to. But there are many people throughout South Africa as well as the rest of the world who cannot afford even the most basic of health care. This is a prominent problem throughout our society and one that the comprehensive approach to primary health care (PHC) … Read more
In Fiela’s Child, the two families, the van Rooyens and the Komoeties, have a strong connection with animals, albeit not always a positive connection. The van Rooyens have a problem with elephants in the forest. The Komoeties’ ostriches give the family all kinds of trouble. Other animals are made reference to throughout the novel, as … Read more
Apartheid was a system employed by the dominantly white government that held the people of Africa apart for over half a century, and is only now being uplifted. It literally means ‘apartness’, and that states a lot about the system itself. The basis of it was to classify all the different people of Africa into … Read more
With the advent of information technology such as the Internet, the world has become a smaller yet more competitive place. Globalisation has also brought with it major transformation in the way commodities are produced throughout the world. The concept globalisation has often evoked emotive responses and continues to do so. I am of the opinion … Read more
Apartheid is the legal segregation of races promulgated in the Republic of South Africa. The discovery of gold and diamonds in South Africa during the 19th century, ultimately lead to racially segregated compounds for mine workers becoming the fore fathers of apartheid(Kanfer 79). By the 1920s de facto apartheid was the predominant feature of life … Read more
In the old South Africa before 1994 the police officers job was to squash subversion and his main obstacle was that most people hated him. Today after the 1994 years election the South African police force main job is to stop the growing crime rate. Which seems impossible for them to manage. The police officers … Read more
Reflecting back on the tragedy that just occurred at Columbine High School in Denver Colorado and the generalizations being made about the U. S youth and the crisis that we are in and supposedly are experiencing ,I decided to research the youth crisis in South Africa. There is at present no “youth crisis” as such. … Read more
