'Racial Ideology'

Within the region of South Africa, there were groups classified as the Boers (Dutch farmers), the British (Rooineks) and the white people who were from different regions or completely from other countries.  Racial Ideology was present within South Africa, as a vestige representation of the Boer wars and others. There was discrimination of both colours, but the whites seemed to proclaim they were to be more superior to the blacks. Controversy between the Boers and the British were present also as they had retaliation between each other and the blacks. Remnants from the war(s) were the main cause of these disagreements and each member of a different culture had every reason to hate because of the losses of lives and life present.

As Peekay was a Rooinek, Courtenay vibrantly presents him being tormented by the pupils and the judge at his boarding school. This demonstrates that not only were the blacks held in disapproval but also the Boers and the British liked to quarrel between each other also. Everyone there was lead to believe that they had the right to have ownership over the country as any other culture did in South Africa.

Around the 30’s and 40’s, South Africa developed as a nation, being successful in importing and exporting things within the trade market and also upgrading their economy each day. As people saw this, they reacted to it by making an agreement as government to separate the different races altogether for their own common advantage.