"She would fulfil her obligations as she understood them and provide for them. The only way she could be a mother to h…"

"Instead of being kind and buying this and that for the maid, just translate the kindness to this woman’s wages […]"

"once the white child reaches the age of five and has to start school, the black child becomes an embarrassment, a vis…"

"the morning paper, the Cape Times, carried the story of the child murdered on the beach. Front page, the story made"

"Today, no one knows the name of the little girl found in a rubbish drum at the back of the butcher’s shop. They don’t…"

"Now that the pass has gone"

"There are not enough mothers during the day to force the children to go to school and stay there for the whole day. T…"

"Mxolisi turned one year. A part of me hated him. Not him . . . but what he was . . . had been . . . the effect he see…"

"Unganyebelezeli, kuza kudlalwa!’ piped Mxolisi’s little voice, calling for daring and defiance. To look at him do the…"

"There was nothing unusual about this. Mxolisi, now four years old, could already tell the difference between the bang…"