The nurse seemed like she waited only because she was tired and out of breath, but she kept talking and acted as if she was stalling.
Such was the impact of poet Ingrid Jonker that decades after her death in 1965, the late Nelson Mandela read her poem, The Child who Was Shot Dead by Soldiers at Nyanga, at the opening of the first democratic Parliament on 24 May 1994.
“The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans and that we are citizens of the world,” he said 20 years ago.
“The certainties that come with age tell me that among these we shall find an Afrikaner woman who transcended a particular experience and became a South African, an African and a citizen of the world. Her name is Ingrid Jonker. She was both a poet and a South African. She was both an Afrikaner and an African. She was both an artist and a human being.”
She had written the poem following a visit to the Philippi police station to see the body of a child who had been shot dead in his mother’s arms by the police in the township of Nyanga in Cape Town. It happened in the aftermath of the massacre of 69 people in Sharpeville, south of Johannesburg, in March 1960. They were marching to the police station to protest against having to carry passbooks.
Answer: Cassie learns , looking at a fig tree, that no matter how hard they try, black people can never get to the top.
It was often impossible to get on a bus because some seats were reserved for the White people. There was always the possibility that the KuKlux Klan would attack the home of a Black family with rocks thrown through windows and a burning cross in the yard. . Black children would be whipped.
There was fear of being lynched.
Explanation:
The thesis statement is what you believe about whatever your writing. Your thesis should be no longer than a few sentences unless told do be so by a teacher(or the person who assigned you this assignment).
Answer:
The answer to this is C.
Explanation:
Most rulers back in the time where this was written viewed themselves as a god or a high being, this was written to remind rulers that really they are as much as human as anybody else.
