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Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane, also known as Johannes Mathabane, wrote the autobiography Kaffir Boy. Mark was born into apartheid South Africa, during his life he was subjected to racial discrimination. This book goes into great detail to tell the horrors of apartheid and what it did to the blacks in South Africa. Johannes was just a young boy, closed minded about whites, and the world in general when the book began. His hatred of whites stemmed from his father’s beliefs about them; they’re all alike, and they all hate blacks. His closed mindedness about the world was a characteristic all blacks living under apartheid had; it was hard to believe that the world outside South Africa was different. It was hard to believe that in other lands, blacks and whites could be neighbors, coworkers, classmates, and friends, when whites did everything possible to make the black man’s life a nightmare. Johannes and his family suffered constant raids by the peri-urban, his mother and father did not have their pass books in order, and if caught would be arrested. It was hard to keep the books in order when the government refused to give them the proper forms. Even when his mother tried to enroll him in school, she had to go to and from the doctor’s office to get a birth certificate, to prove that Johannes was in fact, born in Alexandra.
Approximate Word count = 899
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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