kibeho camp

What happend was in the camp, the people who were the boss were criminals and ruled by fear and might, when it came time to root them out from the innocent, the enemies started attacking the innocent with machetes to create a diverson to escape by and eliminate informants, this caused panic which made the rest of the camp surge up to the authoritys who then suspected it to be a riot and open fired, killing thousands, out of missinformation and revenge against those who they believed had killed members of their families.

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history of apartheid

Apartheid came to south africa with the fight between the dutch and the english, though designed by the loseing side of the dutch apartheid made it self known by placeing the races of the country apart from eachother and cementing whites as the dominant race though also the minority in the land. Every aspect of life had rules separating blacks, whites, and those of mixed race, createing hatred through all of them for each other. Blacks were required to carry pass books showing their standings under apartheid, and misstake was delt with imediatly and harshly. Eventually blacks broke under the weight of apartheid and revolted, a large group refused to carry the pass books and many were killed, the majority who weren't were still wounded. Though most of these horrible asspects of apartheid have been removed the life is still beingled by many, and the fight continues on for equal rights.

1-4 chapter abstract

chapters one through four, show further the normal daily hardships of being an average young boy in the depths of apartheid stricken africa, Mark talks of what the township of alexandra looks like and what the people there think as a whole of their situation.

Modderbee

Modderbee is a prison in South Africa that is known for its horrible conditions and mistreatment of prisoners. What was once a gold mineing camp was not an over filled hell on earth for those unfortunate to break any laws or none but only cause inconvieniance to a white man. Marks mother greatly feared that if her husband went to modderbee he would never be the same upon return if in fact he returned at all as many prisoners perished in the appaling conditions.

monotonous course - ch 4

Mark is begining to go into the regular dreary march of life in alexandra once more and the schedual is thus follows: Monday- babalazi , recover from the weekend of drinking.
Tuesday-the butchers come with bones to sell that have bairly scraps left on them to eat.
Wednesday- the chinaman comes to collect the bets from the week before.
Thursday-The kitchen girls and garden boys come home from the white world for some family time before they have to go back to work.
Friday- Its payday and the tsotsis rob and kill workers for their weeks pay.
Saterday and Sunday- feast on bantu beer and western liquor.

This is the weeks layout that repeats over and over untill Mark finds himself going numb.

kaffir boy abstract

Mark Mathabane is like any other youngster in the city of alexandra a south african slum in the times of the aparthied but for the fact that he has yet to squash his feeling that this is not the way things should or could be, he constantly questions his mother why things are the way they are, she can only tell him that it just is and that he will understand better when he is older. I can i dentify with his mode of thinking when he sees such differences in treatment only because of difference in appearance.