Cry the beloved country

Lauren Howley English III The National Party introduced apartheid as part of their campaign in the 1948 elections, and with the National Party victory, apartheid became the governing political policy for South Africa until the early 1990s. The word apartheid means "separateness" in the Afrikaans language and it describes the rigid racial division between the governing white minority population and the nonwhite majority population. During this time there were many different political views on the basic …

…to stop racial discrimination when most people were used to hearing that fighting is the only answer. In contrasting opinion to Paton, La Guma expresses his belief that the blacks must work together to fight the whites. He shows through a series of current situations and flashbacks of three main characters what life was like in the resistance. Both novels show the horrible repercussions of Apartheid and how the affected to people and their townships.