"The white man has broken the tribe. And it is my belief—and again I ask your pardon—that it cannot be mended again. But the house that is broken, and the man that falls apart when the house is broken, these are the tragic things. That is why children break the law, and old white people are robbed and beaten."
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Msimangu makes this statement after he welcomes Kumalo to Johannesburg, while discussing the troubles of Gertrude and Absalom. Chapter 5
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Alan Paton
1894 – 1948
Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.
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