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Jan van Tonder
Human & Rousseau
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Hendrik Frensch – those were Doktor Verwoerd’s names. I wouldn’t have minded if they’d called me that. Neither would Pa. He voted for the National Party. He was a Nat. But I wondered if it would’ve been quite so easy for him to give me a hiding if he’d had to say: Go to the bathroom, Hendrik Frensch!
One Sunday during the time Ma and the others had gone to bury Oupa, I went to the vlei. On Sundays we weren’t allowed to go to the beach or the woods or the vlei. We had to be quiet. In our own yard. And that was where I’d intended to stay that Sunday while Pa and the rest were away, but then the church Bantus came past our house with their long robes and drums and things and suddenly I remembered the place in the woods I’d seen a while before. A place that had frightened me.
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