Out of your feeling and out of your pain it must come. Others have found it. You can too. But first you must think and not be afraid of your thoughts… - Peter Abrahams

Leah left him and he collapsed in a heap. She looked down and spat. The she raised her heel and brought it down on his face.

In the name of civilization, the dignity and worth of the African people has been grossly underrated, their progress retarded and aspirations frustrated, and the whole life undermined. They are compelled to live in appalling conditions of squalor, filth and isolation...

Hoopvlei was another of the white man's ventures to get the natives and coloreds out of the towns. The natives did not like the locations, and besides, they were all full, so the white man had started townships in the outlying district of Johannesburg in the hope of killing Vrededorp and Malay Camp. Many other places had been killed thus.