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South Africa was a strange place. Everyone was totally oblivious to the need to express the plight of the black people.
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The speaker describes South Africa as “strange” because people seemed unaware that the suffering of Black people needed to be acknowledged and spoken about. “Totally oblivious” presents this silence as widespread, while “plight” emphasizes serious hardship. The sentence therefore criticizes a society that failed to recognize or express concern about Black people’s condition.
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- OkayAfrica, citing a 2001 Globe and Mail interview
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