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Thokoza, a filthy township about 50km east of Johannesburg, buzzes with life like a former freedom fighter – somewhat sprightly yet, deep in the inner chambers of her soul, she looks back forlornly to the heady years in which she waged, alongside other oppressed townships, her own collective liberation struggle to oust the tired and toothless old National Party auntie – the apartheid regime – from political power.
One draws inspiration from the great writers, such as Alan Paton. He writes the following in Cry, the Beloved Country: “Yes, it is the dawn that has come. The titihoya [a plover-like bird] wakes from its sleep, and goes about its work of forlorn crying. The sun tips with light the mountains of Angeli and East Griqualand.