Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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