The others concealed their guns and went into exile. The large square in front of the church was crammed with wagons by the time the Van Doorns arrived, but ther one afternoon Maria Steyn's fat little father appeared on the stoep, asking to talk not only with General de Groot but also with Jakob. Mevrou van Doom held the brassbound Bible; Johanna, the ceramic pot in which her father made his bread pudding.
' ,if there was,' she grumbled, 'somebody else would've noticed. 'I assu you,' Sol Plaatje said at one meeting, 'in their hovels they liv worse than the blacks do in Sophiatown. With the rest of the workers forced to watch, he was thrashed with sjamboks till he fainted. Officials from the United Nations talking sanctions.
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