My children!
My Africa!
Notes
, Characters:
Isabel Dyson
Thami Mbikwana
Mr. M
Luciel → Isabel's sister
Lillian → Thami's mother
Miss Brockway → principal of Camdeboo high
Setting:
Apartheid South Africa in 1984
Act 1:
Scene 1: Brakwater
Isabel & Thami debate against each other at zolile high school
→ debate between black learners from zolile high school and
white learners from Camdeboo girls high.
Topic of debate:
→ that in view of essential physical and psychological differences
between men & women, there should be correspondingly
different educational syllabuses for the two sexes.
Isabel: Thami:
→ her family owns a chemist → was sent to the rural town to
→ she enjoys school keep him safe from the big city
→ wants to be a journalist → his father works on the
railways
→ mother is a domestic worker
→ intelligent & popular
My Africa!
Notes
, Characters:
Isabel Dyson
Thami Mbikwana
Mr. M
Luciel → Isabel's sister
Lillian → Thami's mother
Miss Brockway → principal of Camdeboo high
Setting:
Apartheid South Africa in 1984
Act 1:
Scene 1: Brakwater
Isabel & Thami debate against each other at zolile high school
→ debate between black learners from zolile high school and
white learners from Camdeboo girls high.
Topic of debate:
→ that in view of essential physical and psychological differences
between men & women, there should be correspondingly
different educational syllabuses for the two sexes.
Isabel: Thami:
→ her family owns a chemist → was sent to the rural town to
→ she enjoys school keep him safe from the big city
→ wants to be a journalist → his father works on the
railways
→ mother is a domestic worker
→ intelligent & popular
