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She would fulfil her obligations as she understood them and provide for them. The only way she could be a mother to her children, she saw, would be to leave them

— Sindiwe Magona Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991)

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

Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991)

One boy. Lost. Hopelessly lost. One girl, far away from home. The enactment of the deep, dark, private yearnings of a subjugated race. The consummation of inevitable senseless catastrophe.

Mother to Mother (1998)

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 know it today, for they never knew it then

Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991)

The sun went and died in the west.

Mother to Mother (1998)

No,’ the girl’s mother said quietly. ‘There were many people there. Looking. Some were even laughing. None stopped the crime, none. Until your son arrived on the scene.

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