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Hoeveel mense?

Drie mense.

Twee mense.

Net ek.

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How many people in your party?

We're three.

We're two.

Only me.

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A Dry White Season is 'n roman wat geskryf is deur André Brink en later omskep is in 'n film met dieselfde naam.

Al Brink se romans is aanklagte teen die apartheidsbewind in Suid-Afrika en A Dry White Season word beskou deur sommige as die mees afkeurende van hulle almal.

Die hoofkarakter is 'n blanke onderwyser genaamd Ben Du Toit wat woon in Johannesburg.

Hy is die paradigmatiese gesinsman uit die voorstede met drie kinders en 'n vrou.

Hy leef 'n selfvoldane lewe, onbewus van die Suid-Afrikaanse regering se rasgemotiveerde intriges.

Nie lank na die 1976 Soweto-onluste nie het 'n swart opsigter by sy skool, genaamd Gordon, sy hulp gesoek om sy seun Jonathan op te spoor wat verdwyn het nadat hy laas gesien is saam met die andersdenkendes in Soweto.

Saam het hulle 'n prokureur geraadpleeg en die polisie begin soebat vir inligting oor waar die jong man hom bevind.

Die polisie is ontwykend en gee teenstrydige verslae oor wat met Jonathan gebeur het, maar uiteindelik beweer hulle dat hy gesterf het op die dag van die onluste en begrawe is 'n maand later toe niemand sy liggaam kom opeis het nie.

Ben is gepaai met die storie, maar Gordon hou aan snuffel, eindig self in die tronk en is toe doodgemaak.

Gordon se vrou gaan terug na Ben toe en oortuig hom om te help en Ben se lewe word onderstebo gekeer terwyl hy probeer uitvind wat regtig gebeur het met Gordon en Jonathan.

Hy ontvang 'n bom in die pos, hulle skiet op hom terwyl hy ry en word afgepers en gedwing om uit sy pos te bedank.

Uiteindelik draai almal teen hom, selfs sy familie en vriende.

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A Dry White Season is a novel that was written by Andre Brink and later transformed into a film of the same name.

All of Brink's novels are indictments of the apartheid regime in South Africa, and A Dry White Season is considered by some to be the most deprecatory of all of them.

The main character is a white teacher named Ben Du Tolt who lives in Johannesburg.

He is the paradigmatic family man from the suburbs with three kids and a wife.

He lives a complacent life, incognizant of the South African government's racially motivated machinations.

Not long after the 1976 Soweto Riots, a black custodian at his school named Gordon seeks his help in locating his son Jonathan, who disappeared after last being seen with the dissidents in Soweto.

Together, they consult a lawyer and begin entreating the police for information on the young man's whereabouts.

The police are evasive and give conflicting reports of what happened to Jonathan but eventually claim that he died on the day of the riots and was buried a month later when no one claimed his body.

Ben is placated with the story, but Gordon keeps digging and ends up in jail himself and then is killed.

Gordon's wife goes back to Ben and convinces him to help, and Ben's life is turned upside-down as he tries to find out what really happened to Gordon and Jonathan.

He receives a bomb in the mail, is shot at while driving, and is blackmailed and forced to resign from his job.

Eventually everyone turns against him, even his family and friends.

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Grense; Die Epos van Suid-Afrika se Skepping en die Tragedie van die Xhosa Mense (The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People) is 'n geskiedenisboek wat geskryf is deur Noel Mostert.

Die skrywer se bedoeling daarmee was vir die breë publiek eerder as vir akademici en as sulks, is dit bedoel om die gemiddelde leser se aandag te verdiep.

Mostert is geprys vir sy boek, want hy het vlot geskryf in alledaagse taal en selfs al het hy nie geleerdes geteiken met die boek nie, het hy nie afgeskeep met die navorsing nie en hy was baie deeglik met die besonderhede.

Die skrywer is gebore in Suid-Afrika, maar het die land verlaat op die ouderdom van sewentien en vier dekades spandeer buite die land as joernalis.

Hy het teruggekeer na sy geboorteland om navorsing te doen vir Frontiers, maar hy het nie gebly om permanent daar te woon nie.

Hierdie kroniek van die Xhosa-stam is hoogs simpatiek met hul verknorsing en blyk om hul lewenstyl te idealiseer.

Mostert beeld sendelinge uit as die voorhoede van Europese kolonialisme.

Soos setlaars in die Afrika-kontinent inbeweeg het, het die Xhosas begin om geleidelik hul grond te verloor.

Hulle is geheel en al verslaan teen 1856, het 'n groot gedeelte van hul voorvaderlike grond verloor en hulle het gely onder verdere uitdunning van hul beeste, as gevolg van 'n beeslongsiekte wat gekom het uit Europa.

Later het 'n profetes, onder die invloed van haar oom, wat beïnvloed is deur Christen godsdiens, die Xhosa's oorreed dat ten einde gered te word, hulle meer moes offer en het die sterftes vereis van al hul beeste en die vernietiging van hul graanstore.

n Hongersnood het daarna uitgebreek, tienduisende lewens uitgeroei en die Xhosa-gemeenskap verpletter.

Europese setlaars het toe al die Xhosa-leiers gejag en hulle gedeporteer na Robbeneiland, hul grond opgeëis vir hulself in die proses en dit was die laaste spyker in die doodskis van die Xhosa-stam.

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Frontiers; The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People is a history book written by Noel Mostert.

The author intended it for the general public rather than academicians, and as such, it's meant to engross the average reader.

Mostert was commended for his book because he wrote fluently in everyday language and even though he didn't target scholars with the book, he didn't skimp on the research and was very thorough in the details.

The author was born in South Africa but left at the age of seventeen and spent four decades out of the country as a journalist.

He returned to the land of his birth to do research for Frontiers, but he didn't stay to reside there permanently.

This chronicle of the Xhosa tribe is highly sympathetic with their plight and appears to idealize their lifestyle.

Mostert portrays missionaries as the vanguard of European colonialism.

As settlers advanced into the African continent, the Xhosas began to gradually lose their land.

They were utterly defeated by 1856, having lost a large part of their ancestral lands, and they suffered further decimation of their cattle due to a bovine lung disease which had come from Europe.

Later a prophetess under the influence of her uncle, who had been influenced by Christianity convinced the Xhosas that in order to be saved, they must sacrifice more, requiring the deaths of all their cattle and the destruction of their grain stores.

A famine ensued after, wiping out tens of thousands of lives and shattering Xhosa society.

European settlers then hunted down all of the Xhosa leaders and deported them t [...]

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