J.M Coetzee’s novel Disgrace

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Apartheid in South Africa
White Privilege and Superiority in Apartheid
In the seventeenth century, the English and the Dutch colonized South Africa. The English rule, however, dominated the control of the Dutch thereby forcing the Dutch to inhabit the Orange Free State and Transvaal. It is, however, imperative to note that the discoveries of the mineral deposits in such places led to the war between the Dutch and English. The results of the war led to the independence and the withdrawal of the English from South Africa. With the independence, the Dutch took over control of South Africa. Coetzee’s, a South African writer, has produced several novel that discuss the period of apartheid as well as the injustices that the society faced. All the novels that were written before “disgrace,” talk of the occurrences during the time of apartheid. “Disgrace,” on the other hand, is written post-apartheid and, therefore, discusses the influence of the apartheid rule in the post-apartheid era (Mardorossian 79).
Apartheid came along with several social injustices among other things. With the rivals out of play, the Boers, through the Afrikaner National Party in the 1940s, formed apartheid. The reason for establishing the apartheid rule was to ensure that the Boers would maintain and control the social and economic systems. The apartheid as a law was enacted in the year 1948 and through it racial discrimination was institutionalized. The i…