Two Men in a Boat: Living with Apartheid in South Africa

By Fred Spilkin

This is a story about hard men scratching a living from the sea, facing not only the perils of the ocean, but also their conflicts emanating from the apartheid regime which prevailed in South Africa in the nineteen sixties. The combination of hard scrabble for making a living amidst the politics of South Africa, resulted in tensions and conflict, which at times turned deadly. The book illustrates the privileged white class trying to cope with the position of privilege, which they held over the black and colored people, the latter being disenfranchised, and forbidden to take up certain careers as legislated by the apartheid government. The racial divide in South Africa in the sixties was well-defined and even to the point of legislation. There was internal conflict between the Afrikaans, descendants of the Dutch Settlers, the English speaking South Africans, descendants of English and European cultures, the indigenous Black people, and the Colored (mulato) population, being the result of Black and White intergration. Thrown into this political soup the religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, were divided by animosity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08DBNHBM9
• ISBN13: 9798668874521
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"