Read the sentence from paragraph 5 of the excerpt from "1959: What Is Apartheid?" and answer the question. The Afrikaner Nationalists did not invent it, they merely developed it, and the impulse of Cain from which they
worked was and is present in many white South Africans, English-speaking as well as Afrikaner.
Gordimer references the biblical story of Cain who murders his brother, Abel, and when accused, asks defensively, "Am
I my brother's keeper?" Based on this information, what does Gordimer most suggest in her reference to Cain in her
essay?
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White South Africans do not wish to take responsibility for righting the wrongs against black South Africans.
White South Africans and black South Africans will continue to distrust one another
White South Africans do not believe they are responsible for injustices against black South Africans,
White South Africans are divided in their feelings about how black South Africans have been treated.