There was no human weight pressing on the boards, the creaking was a buckling, an epicenter of stress. I was in it. The house that surrounds me while I sleep is built on undermined ground; far beneath my bed, the floor, the house’s foundations, the stopes and passages of gold mines have hollowed the rock, and when some face trembles, detaches and falls, three thousand feet below, the whole house shifts slightly, bringing uneasy strain to the balance and counterbalance of brick, cement, wood and glass that hold it as a structure around me. What best describes how this passage about the narrator’s home in Nadine Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time” is symbolic of the political situation in South Africa? Select two answers. The status of White South Africans, after decades of exploiting Black people, rests on similarly unstable foundations. Though there may be occasional tremors, the political system in South Africa is fundamentally sound. Like a small earthquake, the problems in South Africa will soon pass. The political unrest in South Africa has roots deep beneath the surface.