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Things in the country moved at a snail's pace, but they did arrive in the end, and when they did they would crash in fury over people's heads

— Lauretta Ngcobo And They Didn't Die (1990)

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It galled him that anybody should think him inferior.

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Yet, he knew that he did not understand anything about the place or its people or its problems.

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And we do not want passes. They have enslaved our men—and we do not want to carry them.

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He said it all depended on his employer; but what did his employer know about her, or her body or their need for a baby? How could he plan their life without them?

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The women are experts at waiting - for husbands, for rain, for unborn children.

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