Discuss the significance of Veronica's dream.

Veronica's dream holds significance on both political and
personal levels.  In terms of the latter, Veronica represents a desire to break with the
ghosts of the past and move towards an unknown future, but do so with a sense of
optimism and hope.  Veronica recognizes that there are barriers upon her in terms of her
mother's demise at the hands of dreams and the despair that her grandfather has had to
make peace with as an elderly Black man in an apartheid South Africa.  Veronica
understands her own condition as one of not being wealthy and being armed only with a
passion for song.  Yet, this is enough for her and what animates her.  The significance
of Veronica's dream on a personal level shows the affirmation of the subjective and the
need to adhere to it regardless of external reality.  The calling of the subjective is
compelling in Veronica and in honoring it, there is a recognition of the redemption that
exists in the subjectivity of one's dreams and
passions. 

From a political point of view, Veronica
represents the hope for a new South Africa.  Emerging from the ashes of apartheid, which
did more to kill the dreams of so many, Veronica represents the vanguard of a new
generation of young people who are willing to embrace the promise of the future without
being weighed from the pain of the past.  If there is any hope in the post- Apartheid
South Africa, Fugard makes it clear that it will come from the Veronicas of the nation. 
White society will have to recognize the fundamental changing paradigm that Black South
Africans are embracing.  Between both, Fugard suggests that there is hope for South
Africa.  When Veronica sees The Author for the last time before her leaving, he
acknowledges this in speaking to her when he says, "The future belongs to you now.’’  
Coming from Fugard's words and Fugard himself, this represents how Veronica's dreams of
unlimited opportunity and hope for participating in the dream that is the new South
Africa.  In a world of uncertainty, the political significance of Veronica's dreams
represents how faith in oneself and one's abilities as well as listening to the passions
within the subjective in the hopes of making the world better is where hope lies
regardless of context.