Jo’s Fight for Trousers & Woods’ Transformation in South Africa
Jo’s Fight for Equality
1) Her mother sided with her and launched a campaign against clothing discrimination. She fought for 3 years so that her daughter could have the right to wear what she wanted. In spite of their unhappiness, the school governors caved in to her claim. Girls now have the choice between the old rule and the way of the future. After all, what does it matter if you wear trousers or a skirt?
Su madre se puso de parte de ella y lanzó una campaña contra la discriminación ropa. Ella luchó durante 3 años para que su hija podría tener el derecho a llevar lo que ella quería. A pesar de su descontento, los gobernadores de la escuela cedieron a su reclamo. Las niñas tienen ahora la posibilidad de elegir entre la vieja regla y el camino hacia el futuro. Después de todo, ¿qué importa si te pones un pantalón o una falda?
2) The EOC took up Jo’s case. It is unlawful to ask girls to give up wearing trousers. Boys can now turn up at school wearing skirts. Governors finally caved in to her sexual discrimination claim. After all that fuss, Jo was glad to get on with her schoolwork.
El COE tome el caso de Jo. Es contra la ley para pedir a las niñas a abandonar usar pantalones. Boys ahora se puede convertir en la escuela el uso de faldas. Gobernadores finalmente ceder a su demanda por discriminación sexual. Después de todo ese alboroto, Jo se alegró de seguir adelante con su trabajo escolar.
Donald Woods and Steve Biko: A Transformation
1) Ken Robertson has taken photographs from the police in Crossroads, a township in Cape Town. Donald Woods, the editor of the Daily Dispatch, decides to publish them. He also publishes an editorial attacking Steve Biko, the leader of the movement “Black Consciousness”. Mamphela Ramphele visits Woods to complain about his editorial about Biko and his political movement. She regrets that Woods writes without getting first-hand information, and invites him to visit Biko and talk to him in his township, in King William’s Town.
2) Woods drives to Biko’s township to meet him. After meeting his wife, he talks with him for a while. At first, their meeting is not very friendly, but the tone changes during the conversation. Woods realises that Biko is a warm, intelligent, sincere person. It’s the beginning of a relationship.
3) While visiting the hospital in Zanempilo, Woods and Biko talk about the situation of black people in South Africa, about the role to be played by them independently from white people. Biko explains the concept of inferiority that black people have to overcome. They have always been presented a world for white people, created and written by white people. Biko invites Woods to visit a black township and see how black people really live.
4) Woods wears a disguise to go to a township with Biko, who leaves someone sitting at his desk pretending it is him. This way they avoid Biko’s minders. He goes in a black taxi, with more black men. One of them is Mapetla, one of the workers at the Hospital.
Vocabulary
- Appeal = apel·lació
- Release = alliberament
- Refusal = desestimació
- Raid = redada
- Township = A South African town where only black people lived during apartheid
- Bulldozer = excavadora
- Beat = golpejar
- Chase = perseguir
- Dare = gosar
- Prevent = evitar
- Stare at = Mirar fixament
- Expenses = despeses
- Nod = Moure al cap per afirmar
- Threat (on) = amenaça
- Hesitate = dubtar
- Confidence = confiança
- Amazed = sorprès
- Lose your temper = Perdre els nervis
- Sigh = sospirar
- Anger = ràbia
- Rise = pujar
- Greet = saludar
- Sort = Tipus de
- Yard = jardí
- Catch your eye = cridar l’atencio
- Hesitate = dubtar
- Ashamed = avergonyit
- Sharply = de forma aspra
- Hold on to = aferrar-se a
- Mood = estat d’ànim
- Warmth = escalfor
- Achievement = logro
- Glance at = fer una cop d’ull
- Embarrassed = avergonyit
- Impressive = Admirable
- Duty = obligació
- Squash = aixafar
- Mood = atmosfera d’humor
- Unsmiling = Seriosos
- Unaware = inconscient
- Blackness = el fet de ser negre
- Emptiness = buidor