Gordon and his wife also helped around the house and when Gordon came to Ben about his son, Ben made sure that Gordon's son would receive a proper education. Ben stood up for him when he was falsely accused for steeling something and in return Gordon washed Ben's car ones a week. He would probably be a teacher in a small town, always protecting the poor and the innocent. Ben wasn't a noticeable fellow and if it wasn't for his wife Susan to urge him on he would not have been such a successful teacher.

Soweto became the symbol of black resistance against segregation.īen du Toit was a teacher at one of the finest schools of Johannesburg. According to official documents from 16 June until mid October 350 people died and 2000 people got hurt. Soweto erupted, demonstrating against the insanity of the law. Not even remembering that it was not revenge or hate, but equality that they where fighting for.ĭuring this period a law was being set up that everybody would have to speak Afrikaans at school. But the youth see their fathers and brothers being killed in the streets by the police and they burst out in rage trying to get even with the whites. Many blacks see the injustice being made against their brothers and sisters and cry out for equality. The voteless black majority of South Africa is being suppressed terribly by the government, because of the race laws, which very conveniently assure the whites of a good wealthy living in South Africa. A white minority of the population is ruling South Africa.

Andre brink a dry white season