There are not enough mothers during the day to force the ch… - Sindiwe Magona

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There are not enough mothers during the day to force the children to go to school and stay there for the whole day. The mothers are at work. Or they are drunk. Defeated by life. Dead. We die young, these days.

Sindiwe Magona

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Sindiwe Magona (born 27 August 1943) is a South African writer.

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She would fulfil her obligations as she understood them and provide for them. The only way she could be a mother to her children, she saw, would be to leave them

once the white child reaches the age of five and has to start school, the black child becomes an embarrassment, a visible reminder of the inequalities endemic in the society

One boy. Lost. Hopelessly lost. One girl, far away from home. The enactment of the deep, dark, private yearnings of a subjugated race. The consummation of inevitable senseless catastrophe.

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