Botha, declared that Afrikaans would be the language of instruction in black schools. The setting for the story shown by this film occurred in 1974 when the South African Minister of Bantu Education and Development, P.W. A series of international sanctions were imposed on South Africa that year measures were toughened in subsequent years. When blacks began to resist apartheid, beginning in the late 1950s, the South African government responded with repressive police state tactics.Ĭonfrontation prompted the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, where police killed 69 unarmed demonstrators. Africans were relegated to impoverished “homelands”. In 1948 the South African government adopted apartheid policies which excluded the black majority from nearly all facets of political, economic and social life. Almost immediately, the new government began to restrict the rights of blacks and persons of Indian or mixed descent. Though defeated militarily by the British in 1902, the Boers (descendants of Dutch, French and German colonists) gained the upper hand in 1910, when the Union of South Africa was formed.

Racial tensions in South Africa date back at least to the eighteenth century when Dutch settlers expanding inland from the coast met Xhosa tribes expanding to the south and west. FICTION (SOAPS, DRAMAS, AND REALITY/SURVIVAL SHOW).FILM ADAPTATIONS OF NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, OR PLAYS.

TALKING AND PLAYING WITH MOVIES: AGES 3-8.

Andre brink a dry white season