Sex, Politics And All That: An Explication Of Arthur Maimane’s "Hate No More"

Abstract

This paper attempts to show how ordinary human relationships become distorted under the influence of the racial prejudice which was the backbone of apartheid South Africa. When people are subjected for an indefinite period to policies which seek to deny the humanity of one group of people by reason of their skin colour, and to elevate another group to a position of superiority, bitterness and frustration inevitably set in and have a toxic effect on people’s relationships, particularly black-white relationships. And what could easily have developed into a healthy man-woman liaison, deteriorates to a racially-motivated violation of a white woman by a black man as an act of retribution for years of humiliation and abuse at the hands of white people. But the author, under the influence of Mandela’s Truth and Reconciliation policy, tries to point out the possibility of normal black-white relationships which rise above colour differences.

Keywords: Sex, race, politics, rape, pride of motherhood, vengeance.