It was no use trying to speak to him. The long painful years of contact with the whites had developed within him a hard protective core of indifferen… - Miriam Tlali

For him as well as Aggripa, this is home. Adam will only leave here when he's a corpse. Where can he go to? He is a "foreign native", a Rhodesian. He has to remain tied to Mr Block for the rest of his life like a slave; he has been sold to him and may not leave him for another master. At least I'm free.

Botswana. It is not called Bechuanaland any more now.

And I thought to myself, to think that my poor little niece is not even aware that she is so important. That her innocent request to pay me a visit can be regarded as a threat to the security of the great Republic of South Africa.