1.
2.
10 I received many SMSes entreating
me to join the march in central
Johannesburg on Saturday to say,
"This outrage is not me and it must
not happen in my name." These were
ordinary South Africans saying, "I
am Nigerian, I am Zimbabwean, I am
Mozambican and I am South African."
11 In the midst of madness, they
asserted my humanity and the
humanity of everyone who walks the
face of the world. These are my heroes.
These are the people I cling to in the
midst of the despair.
12 My heroes include the Rev.
Paul Verryn, who has been housing
the hungry and dispossessed at
the Methodist Church in central
Johannesburg for months. He was told
by ANC parliamentarians - the same
people who have failed to do anything about corruption at Home Affairs -
that he is harbouring criminals. My heroes are Desmond Tutu and Moeletsi
Mbeki, whose voices have been raised loud and clear, saying, "Do not do this
in our name, for we South Africans are a generous, peaceful people." My
heroes are the men and women, workers on low pay, who arrived at work with
a tin of pilchards or corned beef for the dispossessed. In that one act they said,
"This outrage must not be perpetrated in my name."
13 These are the people who have been betrayed by our government, by
Mbeki and his ship of fools, who blame a 'third force' and do nothing while
people are murdered. These are the people who, I trust, will not forget in next
year's election who betrayed them.
[In The Times by Justice Malala, 26 May 2008]
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What is the main idea of the article?
From the first paragraph, what do you understand is the writer's opinion of the
violence? Quote a noun and an adjective to support your answer.
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3.
What word in the first paragraph tells us that he doesn't understand why the
violence is happening?
4.
Quote five examples of emotive language from the first two paragraphs.
5. Who is he ashamed of?
6. Explain how paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 are linked to the title.
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