Passbook Is A Key For Survival Of The Nonwhite

Mathabane autobiography is so vivid that as you read along you feel like you are part of the situation. His childhood was so disturbing; sometimes I had to take a break from reading it. No child should experience what Mathabane and other black South African went through during apartheid. The South black Africans were born there, it their own birth country, but yet they were treated not as second citizens, but as fourth citizens during the apartheid era. Passbook was a key for survival of the nonwhite’s. If you don’t have your passbook in order, you live in a constant terror not knowing what the day or night will bring. As a result of apartheid, Mathabane who was born in the hot turmoil of apartheid, he learned as early as four years old to look after his siblings; lie to the police patrols in order to save his parents; and suffer the hardship life of the South Africa under the restricted and limited life style that was controlled by the white minority. Mathabane was born a few months before sixty-nine unarmed black protesters killed during a peaceful demonstration. “Pass laws regulate the movement of blacks in so-called white South Africa.” Mark (5) Because of the laws and limitations that was

In South Africa, apartheid was established in which a system of white minority rule over the blacks of majority and other racial groups. In 1913, “The Native Land Act” law was passed to have a control 90% of the land to be owned by the white Afrikaners over the black natives. In the 1940’s and 1950’s is when the Apartheid policies put into place. After Apartheid was established, the National party merged with the Afrikaners party and formed Afrikaner’s Nationalist party. This new party starts passing laws that government controlled everything; from where you live, where you work, creating non-hostile environment for the non-whites established system of apartheid in South