Setting of Power of One

English

The story first takes place in rural South Africa, then an Afrikaan school. This goes down in about 1940 - 1950. 

• Socially, at schools, there were different types of schools based on race. There would be a white Afrikaan school, Bantu schools, English schools, etc.
• At the time, Apartheid took place.
• Bantu's were given a district and couldn't travel to other areas that were inhibited by the whites.
• There was a lot of economic inequality during the time frame it took place
• Land acts or laws gave over 80% of the land to the white south Africans 
• To try and limit contact between the races each had their own public facilities
• Their national party tried to delay off bankruptcy by raising taxes on imports
• By 1950 the government had banned between whites and people of other races
• There was a line drawn to separate the blacks and whites
• The government had divided neighborhoods
•  Afrikaans would bully English because they blamed them for the English taking their land.
• The English and black were hated by the Afrikaans. 
• The government put the Afrikaans before the Africans 
• The toilets were divided to white and blacks.
• The blacks were treated badly because they were hated on all sides.