Question

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

a. The policy of apartheid created a deep and lasting wound in my country and it's people.

b. The effect of decades of oppression and brutality was that it produced the Oliver Tambos, the Walter Sisulus, the Chief Luthulius, the Yusuf Dadoos, the Bram Fischers, the Robert Sobukwes of those times.

c. They were men of such extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity.

d. These lines depict that Mandela was a hardworking and nice person, who could do anything for freedom and nation.

e. "Brutality" is the synonym of cruelty.