When they believe all the children are asleep, they want to be pleasured. The next day they wake up and continue with their empty theories. - Zakes Mda

In those days, they did not allow people of his colour onto any of the beaches of the city, so he could not carry out his ablutions there, as he does today.

Camagu has no heart to tell her that Athens is a college town that is even smaller than the nearby town of Butterworth*.

Conversely, Noria’s memory of the village is the pale herd boys, with mucus hang- ing from the nostrils, looking after cattle whose ribs you could count, on barren hills with sparse grass and shrups. The lean cattle and barren hills are partly result of overgrazing, which is in turn due to shortage of land for black people.