Where righteous anger meets rigid allegiance

26 June 2016 - 02:00
By Tony Leon

Alan Paton would not have shrunk from crucial change whatever the cost, writes Tony Leon Back in 1974, in the village of Botha's Hill, when KwaZulu-Natal was called Natal and apartheid was at its apogee , the boarding school I attended there played host to its most distinguished resident.Alan Paton glared at our matric class through his half-rimmed glasses and delivered a lecture of grace, passion and anger.

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