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- Publication year
- 2008
Quotes
- Miek Messerschmidthas quotedlast year
Ceaselessly, irresistibly, it came down from the dark skies. In a blunted stupor I resigned myself to the thought that it would never stop again. I didn’t care any more. Let it go on, I thought, let it increase and grow worse and worse, a flood to soak the earth and uproot trees and split rocks; causing the red earth to run down the hills, streaming, streaming endlessly, red water as if the earth itself was crying, as if the earth was crying blood. Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika. - Miek Messerschmidthas quotedlast yearIn our time the notion of an apocalypse need no longer imply actual or active destruction. It is much more subtle. We have our Soweto, we have our Voortrekker Monument, we have thickets among hills on farms: but we no longer have hell.
- Miek Messerschmidthas quotedlast yearAfter she’d gone, Ma sighed: “Poor old Kristina. What’s going to become of her now?”
“They’ll stay on the farm even if it’s sold.”
“Part of the livestock, you mean?”
“They’ll be all right, Ma. And once the Ciskei becomes independent, they’ll all be free in their own country.”
“And we’ll all die of freedom in our own country,” she said morosely.
I decided it was better to leave her alone while she was in that mood.
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