Question

5) The policy of apartheid created a deep and lasting wound in my country and my people. All of us will
spend many years, if not generations, recovering from that profound hurt. But the decades of oppression
and brutality had another, unintended, effect, and that was that it produced the Oliver Tambos, the
Walter Sisulus, the Chief Luthulis, the Yusuf Dadoos, the Bram Fischers, the Robert Sobukwes of our
time* - men of such extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity that their like may never be known
again
(a) What did the policy of apartheid create?
(b) What was the effect of the decades of oppression and brutality?
(c) What kind of men were they?
(d) What do these lines show about Mandela's character?
(e) Find the word in the passage which is synonym of cruelty.​

Answer 1

1. Apartheid (Afrikaans: “apartness”) was the name that the party gave to its racial segregation policies, which built upon the country's history of racial segregation between the ruling white minority and the nonwhite majority.
2. Mandela believed that the decades of oppression and brutality had an unintended effect of creating many African patriots. Thus, he believed that the greatest wealth of South Africa is its people.
3. The Whiner: This is the man who gets up most mornings and chooses to be paralyzed by his past. ...
4. The Worrier: This is the man who is not paralyzed by his past, but he's fearful of the future because he's constantly looking ahead. ...
5. The Waiter: This is the man who is indecisive in the present. ...
6. The Wounded: ...
7. The Warrior.
8. They were men of extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity. (d) These lines show that Mandela was grateful to those patriots and heroes who fought against the apartheid in the past. Perhaps it requires such depths of oppression to create such heights of Character
9. SYNONYMS. brutality, savagery, savageness, inhumanity, barbarism, barbarousness, brutishness, bloodthirstiness, murderousness, viciousness, ferocity, ferociousness, fierceness.