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Enjoy the following quotes from books I have recently read. A cooperative of any kind in South Africa would cause a riot of hysteria among the white population - their wealth and privilege are dependent on the poverty and distress of black people.  ( Bessie Head in A Woman Alone ) I would propose that mankind will one day be ruled by men who are God and not greedy, power-hungry politicians. ( Bessie Head in  A Woman Alone ) When a person is said to have died he is not dead, he is merely transformed, the breath of life having left this covering of flesh and migrated to another land which shines more gloriously than the sun.  ( Thomas Mofolo in Chaka ) There is only one thing that has power completely, and it is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and that is love.  ( Alan Paton  in  Cry, the Beloved Country ) But when a black man gets power, when he gets money, he is a great man if he is not corrupt. ... He see...

Title: Cry, the Beloved Country Author: Alan Paton Genre: Fiction/Racialism Publishers: Vintage Pages: 240 Year of First Publication: 1948 (this edition, 2002) Country: South Africa Alan Paton's famous work, Cry, the Beloved Country , address interracial prejudices that existed during pre-apartheid South Africa. Though the novel was published in the very year the National Party instituted apartheid, it tells of the problems which existed before apartheid. It could be taken as the 'events' that led to the institution of apartheid. In this novel we follow Stephen Kumalo whose brother (John Kumalo), sister (Gertrude) and son (Absalom Kumalo) had all left their home village of Ndotsheni to Johannesburg in search of employment. Earlier he had received a letter concerning the negative ways Gertrude had fallen into: brewing local alcohol and prostituting. Soon this simple search for a sister turns into a complex labyrinthine search for a son. In the big city...