Analysis Of The Poem F.w De Klerk Fixing A Broken Land

F.W de Klerk: Fixing a Broken Land Sea and Sand My love My land, God bless Africa Sea and sand My love My land, God bless Africa But more the South of Africa Where we live†¦ Bless the angry mountains And the smiling hills Where the cool water spills To heal the earth’s brow Bless the children of South Africa The white children And the black children Who lost the sea and the sand That they may not lose love For white children Whose fathers raped the land†¦ Sea and sand My love My land, God bless Africa (The land and People of South Africa) This piece of art is written by a South African poet by the name of Don Mattera. This poem embellished the distress and hardship that South Africa and the people of this unique and beautiful land had to go through during the times of Apartheid. During these tragic times of separation people of South Africa, that were against this racial segregation, stood up for their rights through many ways such as poetry and petition. Others, such as F.W de Klerk expressed his dislike for this cruel act of disconnection through politics and made it his goal to make South Africa racially equal and whole. During apartheid in South Africa F.W de Klerk took a stand to fight for human rights through tough times of racial separation to equality by ending apartheid. Apartheid was a government system that South Africa used from the years 1948 to 1994 (â€Å"Frederik Willem De Klerk†). The word apartheid means separateness which is exactly what the government wanted