The Power of One Page #2
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1992
- 127 min
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and dream to Africa, I was bound
by heritage and language to the
birthplace of my grandparents -England
-- a country I had never
seen, but one that was to cause
me eminently more problems than
bedwetting ever did.
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A motorcar driving along the road to the school.
YOUNG MAN (V.O.)
The school I was sent to was
attended and staffed entirely by
Afrikaaners, the oldest of the two
white tribes of Africa.
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10 INT. SCHOOL 10
The six-year-old walks timorously through the halls,
filled with bigger boys -- brash, noisy, hostile. They
only speak the "Taal" -- Afrikaans. Over and over they
jostle or verbally deride the six-year-old, knocking his
books down so that when he bends to pick them up he is
kicked in the butt. Or pulling his shirt out from under
his jacket and making it hard to move.
YOUNG MAN (V.O.)
I spoke only English. The hated
tongue. The language of the enemy
who had usurped power and stolen
chicanery and military brutality.
A mob of boys, led by a big bully, JAAPIE BOTHA, runs
the six-year-old through the bathroom and into the
showers, fully clothed. He tries to run out. Jaapie
Botha grabs him and throws him back in, holding him with
one ham-fisted hand under the shower head and turning the
shower on with the other. The six-year-old stands
miserable as the stinging water pelts him.
YOUNG MAN (V.O.)
During the Boer War of 1896,
26,000 Boer women and children
were herded into detainment camps
by the British, where they died
like flies from dysentery,
7.
malaria and black water fever.
And it seemed I was destined to
shoulder the responsibility foreach and every one of thosedeaths.
The six-year-old in his first soccer game receives theball. He tries to move upfield, but he is kicked andpushed, the ball taken from him. He gets up gamely tofollow the chase, only to be flattened, blindsided byJaapie Botha.
YOUNG MAN (V.O.)
And no one made this more evident
to me than Jaapie Botha, a wheatfarmer's son from the Transvaal.
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11 INT. DORMITORY 11
The six-year-old, asleep, his chicken perched alertlyatop the bed.
YOUNG MAN (V.O.)
The only time I was at peace waswhen I slept. Inkosi Inkosikazi's
chicken proved to be, like hisprevious owner, a salvation.
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12 EXT. REAR OF DORMITORY - DAY 12
The Boy builds a small shelter for the CHICKEN, whoCLUCKS and forages contentedly.
YOUNG MAN (V.O.)
During the day he would liveoutside the dorm, happily scarfingdown bugs and grubs, secure in alittle house I built for him.
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YOUNG MAN (V.O.)
And at night he would hop throughthe window and, perching over mybed, squawking if any intruders
came near.
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