Her er mit ændrings/korrektur-forslag:
André Brink, the author of the novel A Dry White Season, is a Boer i.e. he belongs to the
Africaan-speaking white
population in South Africa. Being in the opposition, and Boer, is a quite difficult position for an author. The Boers are
by definition and tradition high
ly patriots and supporters of apartheid;
and if they are not, they are traitors, deserters and they must be
relentless punished.
Ben Du Toit, the main character in
the novel of André Brinks, is an honest, conscientious teacher, who has never
decided an oppinion about the apartheid system. He has, as the friendly human being he is, supported
the son of the schools black janitor
in several years. And this slight connection has
this far been the only connection to the black world.
Ben Du Toit discovers through the black schoolboy’s death
at the Soweto unrests in 1976 “the other side of the moon”: the system
seen from the
oppressed peoples point of view.
God fornøjelse!