Apartheid and Racism in South Africa: The Study of Marginalization and OppressioninDamon Galgut’s the Promise

Abstract

The aim of this research is to raises the two basics themes of novel, apartheid and the racisminSouth Africa. Damon Galgut’s new book ‘’The Promise’’ has been published in May 2021. Inthisnovel, Damon Galgut reflects the apartheid theory and the racism in South Africa whichhasbeen seen as marginalization and oppression tools against the black people. This idea is basedonMalan's (1948) work on racial segregation in South Africa, where the white government forbadeany interaction between the country's non-white population and enforced racial segregationinhousing and public spaces. South Africa is a country emerged from the apartheid in 1994withgreat hopes for the transformation of the country from crisis ridden. Galgut uses his positionatthe intersection of gender and race to tell a story that blames the Afrikaner for SouthAfrica'ssluggish and complicated economic and political transformations. The text has been subjectedto D.F.Malan’s concept of apartheid, showing the oppression and marginalizationof blackpeople in the context of black apartheid and racism. Keywords: Apartheid, Racism, Segregation, transformation, South Africa, crisis