Month: April 2018

All of the South Africans, that were black, at the beginning of the movie were cheering for the opposite teams that played the Springboks. But then once the Springboks started doing clinics in townships for the black people and that was very public and then the blacks started cheering for the Springboks.

Francois Pienaar. Francois’s whole family didn’t like Nelson Mandela at all and then Francois, when he went to Nelson Mandela’s office and had tea with Francois and his family didn’t really approve of him going there but he went anyway. Also when they went to the island where Nelson Mandela was in prison it clicked for Francois what all Nelson Mandela had to go through for 27 years.

My thoughts on Africa have almost always been the same, going into this activity I just thought Africa was some poor continent that had safari animals. But boy, was I wrong. Africa is a very diverse continent. For example, South Africa, the country, is one of the arguably most diverse countries. There are loads of different races throughout South Africa including; Dutch, like me. Kids our age don’t act that differently from us. They still like to play sports even though their circumstances are different from ours. When we were guessing about pictures to see if they were born in Africa or not. It was a lot harder than expected because there are so many people that have been adopted or were apart of the slave trades in America. Doing these activities my perspective on Africa has deeply changed.