A drink in the passage.ppt

1、Alan Paton,Alan Paton was born on January 11, 1903 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. After graduating from Maritzburg College in 1918, he studied at the University of Natal, where he graduated with distinction in physics. After leaving school, Paton became a science teacher in 1925. In 1935 he left

2、 his teaching position to become the principal of the Diepkloof Reformatory for delinquent urban African boys near Johannesburg.,Alan Paton,.Cry, the Beloved Country was published in February of 1948. The publication of this novel, which was a great success, allowed Paton to resign as principal of t

3、he reformatory to devote himself fully to his writing.,Cry, the Beloved Country was soon adapted into a musical, Lost in the Stars, by composer Kurt Weill and a film directed by Zoltan Korda on whose screenplay Paton contributed.,His second novel, Too Late the Pharalope, was published in 1953 while

4、Paton worked at a tuberculosis settlement. During this time, Paton began to take a more active interest in politics, becoming the vice-president of the Liberal Party and, in 1956, the party chairman. Paton eventually became National President of the Liberal Party until 1968.,Paton also published sev

5、eral other non-fiction works, including The Land and the People of South Africa (1955), Hope for South Africa (1958) and The People Wept (1958). In 1959 he wrote The Last Journey, a play about the missionary David Livingston, as well as The Christian Approach to Racial Problems in the Modern World.,

6、Where is the love,People killing people dying Children hurtin you hear them crying Can you practice what you preach Would you turn the other cheek? Father Father Father help us Send some guidance from above Cause people got me got me questioning Where is the love? Whats wrong with the world mama? Pe

7、ople living like aint got no mamas I think the whole worlds addicted to the drama Only attracted to the things that bring you trauma Overseas yeah we tryin to stop terrorism,Where is the love,But we still got terrorists here livin In the USA the big CIA the Bloodz and the Crips and the KKK But if yo

8、u only have love for your own race Then you only leave space to discriminate And to discriminate only generates hate And if you hatin youre bound to get irate Yeah madness is what you demonstrate And thats exactly how anger works and operates You gotta have love just to set it straight Take control

9、of your mind and meditate Let your soul gravitate to the love yall,South Africa under apartheid,South Africa was colonized by the English and Dutch in the seventeenth century. The discovery of diamonds in these lands around 1900 resulted in an English invasion which sparked the Boer War. Initially,

10、aim of the apartheid was to maintain white domination while extending racial separation. Starting in the 60s, a plan of Grand Apartheid was executed, emphasizing territorial separation and police repression. With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized.,H

11、omeland system,The key building blocks to enforcement of racial segregation were: the arrangement of the population into African, coloured, Indian and white racial groups; strict racial segregation in the urban areas; restricted African urbanization; a tightly-controlled and more restricted system o

12、f migrant labour; a stronger accent on tribalism and orthodoxy in African administration than in the past; and a drastic strengthening of security legislation and control.,A rural area in Ciskei, one of the apartheid era homelands,Petty apartheid,The first of these was the Prohibition of Mixed Marri

13、ages Act 55 of 1949, prohibiting marriage between white people and people of other races. Blacks were not allowed to run businesses or professional practices in those areas designated as white South Africa without a permit,Transport and civil facilities were segregated. Black buses stopped at black

14、bus stops and white buses at white ones. Trains, hospitals and ambulances were segregated. each black homeland controlled its own separate education, health and police system. Blacks were not allowed to buy hard liquor. They were able only to buy state-produced poor quality beer,Petty apartheid: sign on Durban beach in English.,Women under apartheid,Colonialism and apartheid had a major impact on women since they suffered both racial and gender discrimination. They had very few or no legal rights, no access to education and no right to own property. Jobs were often