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"Are you really worried about your children, friend, or are you just worried about yourself and your bloody name? Wake up, man! Use that bloody book and with your pay on Friday you'll have a real chance to do something for them."

— Athol Fugard Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (1972)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Buntu encourages Sizwe to give up his real name, and the life attached to it, to improve his circumstances and avoid deportation.

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