The power of one

Identity, Class, Culture

- In 1680, Dutch, French, Germans fled to Africa they were called Afrikaners

- For the next 250 yrs the British came to South Africa and they fought over the gold, and 20 million native Africans.

- In 1948 a conservative Afrikaner gov was voted into power. A racial segregation first introduced by the English was declared the law of the land.

- The Africans called it Apartheid

- They didn’t feed there own children, but hired a birth mother (nany)

- Didn't rain... there was a plague that killed all the cattle

- English through the Afrikaners out of there land, the Afrikaners are also hateful of the black

- PK was blamed for all the Afrikaners deaths, he was spitted on, and pee on, because he was the only British kid in the school of all Afrikaners.

- The birth mother called a high chef to get away with PK fears, caused by the school

- Afrikaners are normally from Germany. So they support the Nazis, and believe that Nazis will get ride of all the British.

- Music is an important aspect to a boys growth

- You need two things health and education

- Never allowed to call his instructor Sir because he was black

- PK see everyone black, white, British etc the same.

- The instructor was forced to eat crap

- The concert was the first time that they were together all the tribes as one … “they run this way and that way, they are afraid”

- She is Afrikaner and he’s British, her father is some political guy

- They believe strongly in meths

- 1 toilet per 200 people

- They don't want to help teach the blacks.

- Because of the fathers bitterness, his daughter die. his fault.

There is still a struggle in Africa to create an equal government and people. But this can not be done without a great number of people working together to make it work. Power of one, Power of all.

by Amber Leigh Lovell