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South Africa, was once the Republiek Van Suid-Afrika and apartheid, is now a Rainbow Nation. Having begun to declare their independence from the colonial rule of Great Britain as early as in 1910 through the creation of the Union, the Africans seem to have taken a wrong turn somewhere. Through the apartheid regime the white people continued oppressing and discriminating against the Black (African Coloured) and Indian population of South Africa. The National Party, mainly a white nationalist party, won the 1948 election, ensuring the legal birth of apartheid. In the decades that followed, restrictions and laws were passed which made the border between the white �masters� and the natives even larger. There is a tradition in South African literature where the farm represents, or is parallel to the country of South Africa itself. In his essay collection White Writing, Coetzee talks about how the plaasroman amongst others, have participated in justifying white land ownership and the construction of an inseparable bond between the Afrikaans man and the land. Thus, his thoughts in Boyhood underline the need for the Afrikaner to construct a bond and a justification to a land which he has in his secret heart and does not belong to him.