4 Source A - The extract is taken from My Children My Africa
traps which
"Do you understand me, good people? Do you understand now why it is not as easy as it
used to be to sit behind that desk and learn only what Oom Dawie has decided I must
know? My head is rebellious. It refuses now to remember when the Dutch landed, and the
Huguenots landed, and the British landed. It has already forgotten when the old Union
become the proud young Republic. But it does know what happened in Kliptown in 1955,
in Sharpeville on 21st March, 1960, and in Soweto on the 16th of June 1976. Do you?
Better find out because those are dates your children will have to learn one day. We don't
need the Zolile classrooms any more. We know now what they really are ...
have been carefully set to catch our minds, our souls. No, good people. We have woken up
at last. We have found another school ... the streets, the little rooms, the funeral parlours
of the location ... anywhere the people meet and whisper names we have been told to
forget, the dates of events they try to tell us never happened, and the speeches they try to
say were never made. Those are the lessons we are eager and proud to learn, because they
are lessons about our history, about our heroes. But the time for whispering them is past.
'omorrow
.4.1 Refer to Source A and imagine the play being performed on the stage. In our?
present context, motivate how an audience might respond to this play being
performed in your local community
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Answer:
One of the play’s three main protagonists, Thami is a brilliant, charismatic, ambitious Black student at Zolile High School who gets caught up in South Africa’s turbulent political situation. Thami once dreamed of becoming a doctor, and his beloved teacher Mr. M hopes that he will be able to attend college. However, as a teenager, Thami sees how his community suffers under apartheid and decides that the best way for him to contribute to South Africa’s future is through politics, not education. Thami gets involved in a series of community protests led by a group called the Comrades. This leads him to quarrel with Mr. M, who believes that Thami will waste his potential and put himself in danger by joining these protests. Over the course of the play, Thami also befriends Isabel Dyson, a white student from a private, all-white girls’ school. After they first meet during an inter-school debate at the beginning of the play, Mr. M convinces them to join forces for an English literature quiz competition. They bond by telling jokes, sharing their aspirations, and talking about their lives, which are vastly different even though they live in the same town. Eventually, though, he reluctantly breaks off their friendship because the Comrades don’t approve of Black people socializing with white people. At the end of the play, Thami tries and fails to save Mr. M from the angry mob that kills him, and then he goes into exile to join the international anti-apartheid movement. Despite their disagreements, Thami continues to love and respect Mr. M for his dedication to African youth. As part of a generation of young South Africans growing up during the struggle for democracy, Thami bridges his nation’s past and future. He represents young Africans’ great potential and sense of optimism, but his inability to pursue his dreams shows how these same young Africans face a tragic fate under the apartheid system.
Thami Mbikwana Quotes in My Children! My Africa!
The My Children! My Africa! quotes below are all either spoken by Thami Mbikwana or refer to Thami Mbikwana . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: Protest, Dissent, and Violence Theme Icon).
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