On the day of the inauguration, I was overwhelmed with a sense of history. In the first decade of the
twentieth century, a few years after the bitter Anglo-Boer war and before my own birth, the white-
skinned peoples of South Africa patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination
against the dark-skinned peoples of their own land. The structure they created formed the basis of one of
the harshest, most inhumane, societies the world has ever known.
(a) Who was the speaker?
(b) Why was Mandela overwhelmed?
(c) What did the white skinned peoples of South Africa patch up?
(d) What was the structure that they created?
(e) Could Mandela and his people succeed in breaking that structure?
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a)The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer, or the chair. The title was first used in 1377 in England.
b) For decades South Africa had been the seat for white supremacy. Their victory over 'apartheid' was a common victory for justice, peace and freedom. Nelson Mandela was overwhelmed with a sense of history. ... His desire for the freedom and dignity of his people made him a rebel.
c)(i) In the first decade of the twentieth century, the white-skinned people of South Africa patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against the dark-skinned people of their own land, thus creating the basis of one of the harshest and most inhumane societies the world had ever known
d).The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane, societies the world has ever known
e) don't know