My Children! My Africa! Terms

Apartheid was the system of racial segregation that South Africa’s white supremacist government imposed on the country’s population from 1948 until the 1990s. read analysis of Apartheid

The play’s primary setting is Brakwater, a township on the outskirts of Camdeboo (a municipality in South Africa) where all the city’s Black residents live. White townspeople euphemistically call Brakwater “the location.” read analysis of Brakwater (“The Location”)

During South African apartheid (a period of legally enforced racial segregation), townships were racially segregated neighborhoods. They were usually located on the outskirts of cities, where non-white South African people were forced to live during… read analysis of Township