Hannetjie is just a child and stupidly truthful. - Bessie Emery Head

Things wouldn’t have been so bad if black men as a whole had not accepted their oppression and added to it with their own taboos and traditions.

You know, comrades,” he said, “I’ve got Hannetjie. I’ll betray him tomorrow.”

It was the mentality of the old hag that ruined a whole continent - some sort of clinging, ancestral, tribal belief that a man was nothing more than a grovelling sex organ, that there was no such thing as privacy of soul and body, and that no ordinary man would hesitate to jump on a mere child.