Citations/Bibliography

“South African Flag.” http://www.info.gov.za/aboutgovt/symbols/flag.htm. National Flag. January 12th


Mjekula,Luvuyo. “Still Hungry””http://www.capetimes.co.za/hungry-still-eating-expired-food-1.1010964 . Hungry still eating expired food. January 12th


Sapa. “Importance of Land.” http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/community-s-platinum-bid-delayed-1.878033. Community's platinum bid delayed. January 12th


“Political Cartoon”.http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/margaret.campion/seconded/suzanne/lesson.htm Lesson Plan South Africas New Birth of Freedom. January 12th-First found in “The Star” Newspaper in Johannesburg.


“My Greatest Fear.”http://www.thezashow.com/?m=200604 .Zashow #047. January 12th

South African Flag

The flag was first used on April 27th 1944 and it was designed by Fred Brownell. The colors represent all the different elements that represent South Africa. Each color or color combinations represent different things to different people. They don't represent something specific. The 'V' form and the single horizontal band to the outer edge represents and the coming together of diverse people and places within South African and it represents them unifying together.

Still Hungry

Recently in Cape Town, South Africa there are a few poor neighborhoods who have started hiding and eating rotten or expired food. They are so desperate for food that they will eat almost anything. Eating this rotten food has sent around 100 people to the hospital. Community leaders went in and removed all the expired food to keep the people safe. It is said that the people continued eating this food because they had not yet experienced the sickness that they can experience from it.
There is a direct connection from the book to this article. When Kumalo comes home from Johannesburg he realizes that there is no milk and all the little children are getting sick. He knows that there is a shortage of food and that he needs to do something to help his people. If he doesn't then they will end up eating rotten food that will make them sick, and they probably don't have the treatment to help them get better quickly.
"Tixo, give us rain, we beseech Thee, that we may plough and sow our seed. And if there is no rain, protect us against hunger and starvation, we pray Thee"

Cry, The Beloved Country

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"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."

The younger generations are inheriting the problems that we have caused with the land, we have mistreated and over used and if they get to attached to it there is a great chance that during their life it will be gone. Not only with the land but they must deal with social and political issues. They will be the ones doing the final "clean up" from apartheid. They will fix the mistakes from the black and the white people.

The Light Will Come

"Ndotsheni is still in darkness, but the light will come there also. For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret."

This is a really powerfully quote that i think can relate to many things. It says that the people of South Africa know that they will eventually be free and not have to live in fear but they just don't know when their relief will happen. For most people, having faith that "the dawn will come" is the only thing that keeps them hoping for a better life and a better future. So all people can do is wait and hope and survive until they can be relieved. Ndotsheni is in darkness because all the young people are leaving to find something more, which is giving the village not much hope. All the children are getting sick and they aren't wealthy enough or powerful enough to change that. All they can do is hope.

My Greatest Fear

"But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it...I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating."

A few years ago in South Africa some murders and the Government told the people that they would help the people and stop the murderers, but it never happened. In response to this many South Africans became angry and started acting violently. So angry that they started to burn down Government Leaders homes. Other innocent people have been getting injured because of these raids. When things started to calm down the people responsible decided to, instead of violence, have a peace walk to protest the murders.

This shows the effect of fear because if people are going around burning houses and harming people it is really scary. So the government officials are more inclined to do what they ask for their safety and for the safety of their families. But it shows the unifying power of love. Because a peace walk can bring people from all over together to try to make a difference and people will make a difference through love and not fear.

"Call and dance, call and dance. Now, while you may."

"Call and dance, Innocence, call and dance while you may. For this is a prelude, it is only a beginning. Strange things will be woven into it, by men you have never heard of, in places you have never seen. It is life you are going into, you are not afraid because you do not know. Call and dance, call and dance. Now, while you may."

This quote, to me, is explaining how we need to enjoy our innocence and youth while we still can. "Call and dance" reminds me of a child whose perfectly content in their own little world dancing and yelling their own song. Innocence only last for a few short years. By the time most children are 8 they've already been introduced to "the really world". Innocence is something that i think we should all hold on to. Its something that can we use to get away from the real world at some points when we really need it. I think the experience of growing up is a controversial one. Some people can't wait till they grow up and can be on their own, experiencing "grown up" things, but others dread the day when they actually have to leave their childhood stage and move on to bigger things.

In the book it says that the country can no longer hold the people. The young men and woman leave. But when they are young and innocent they would never think of leaving. When they call and dance all they care about it having fun, they aren't worried about the future. But as they get older they start to learn things they have never heard of before, and some of it is frightening, and I am sure there is a time when they wish they could go back to calling and dancing.

Importance of Land

"It said the land would be buried under millions of tons of mine waste that would render it sterile and totally unusable for agriculture, grazing or any other purpose... They said it would make it impossible forever for them to reclaim their ancestral lands and provide for the subsistence of their families from the land."

This is an article off of iol.com that is talking about a small town in south Africa whose lands and rivers are being destroyed by a local mine. This has to do with importance of the land. The native people of these lands are trying to preserve it so that it will keep providing for them but the mining companies are making that hard. These natives know that if their land is ruined and not treated well, it will be useless to them and they will have to uproot themselves and their families to land that has not been ruined so it can provide for them. It relates to the very first chapter in the book because it is talking about how the people overused the land and it won't provide for them anymore and that is what is happening to these people.

Political Cartoon

This political cartoon portrays how blacks were mistreated even after they gained their freedom. Even with their freedom whites were still seen as superior and blacks were withheld from many rights. Blacks got poorer education, jobs, homes and treatment. This shows the cycle of inequality because even as things supposedly got "better" they really didn't change.

"Sun City" by Artists United Against Apartheid

Sun City
Artists Against Apartheid

We're rockers and rappers united and strong
We're here to talk about South Africa we don't like what's going on
It's time for some justice it's time for the truth
We've realized there's only one thing we can do

I ain't gonna play Sun City

Relocation to phony homelands
Separation of families I can't understand
23 million can't vote because they're black
We're stabbing our brothers and sisters in the back

I ain't gonna play Sun City

Our government tells us we're doing all we can
Constructive Engagement is Ronald Reagan's plan
Meanwhile people are dying and giving up hope
This quiet diplomacy ain't nothing but a joke

I ain't gonna play Sun City

Boputhuswana is far away
But we know it's in South Africa no matter what they say
You can't buy me I don't care what you pay
Don't ask me Sun City because I ain't gonna play

I ain't gonna play Sun City

It's time to accept our responsibility
Freedom is a privilege nobody rides for free
Look around the world baby it can't be denied
Why are we always on the wrong side

I ain't gonna play Sun City

Relocation to phony homelands
Separation of families I can't understand
23 million can't vote because they're black
We're stabbing our brothers and sisters in the back

Character's From Cry, the Beloved Country

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"For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret." -Stephen Kumalo

Stephen Kumalo is a priest from the town Ndotsheni in South Africa. He travels to Johannesburg to find his sister. Once he finds his sister he travels all over the country to find his son. He is worried his son is in trouble, when he finds him he is in prison for murdering a white man. Kumalo experiences a whole new life in Johannesburg he experiences new ways of living and new places. When he returns home he wants to help change his community. He wants to educate the people so that they can learn to keep their lands. So that they will learn to provide for themselves so that one day they will be educated and free from bondage.

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"For he had given little time in his life to the savoring and judging of words... For he had given little time to the studies of these particular matters." -James Jarvis

James Jarvis is a rich white man who lives on top on Ndotsheni. He has a big insight in the real world that hes living in when his son dies and he gets to read his sons writings and the influence he had in society. James realizes that there are issues in the world and he hasn't done what he can to fix them. In the end of the book, James ends up donating resources and money to Ndotsheni. He builds a dam for the people and sends them milk for the sick children. He also gave Kumalo money for a new church and sends a man to teach them to farm. He's realized that there was so much he could do to change in just his village and he took the initiative to overcome diversity and help the people no matter their race.

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"But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it...I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating." -Msimangu

Msimangu is a priest from Johannesburg who helps Stephen Kumalo find his sister and his son. He is a very unselfish man who wants to help in anyway he can. He stands by Kumalo through out their whole journey and helps them through the struggle of having his son kill someone. Msimangu gives Kumalo money to compensate for all the money that he spent in Johannesburg. He gives him all his money because he wants to go into a life where he doesn't need any of his things, he wants to be a monk. He wants to live a life where he can teach his religion and help everyone.

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"There is no lie in it, for I said to myself, I shall not lie anymore, all the rest of my days, nor do anything more that is evil." -Absalom Kumalo

Absalom is the son of Stephen Kumalo. He went to Johannesburg looking for his aunt but he never returned home. Him and his cousin got in some trouble with a bunch of different people. They were stealing all kinds of things and had to keep moving from place to place so they wouldn't get caught. Absalom got a young girl pregnant and in the end the do end up getting married. Him and two other boys broke into Arthur Jarvis's house and Absalom accidentally killed Arthur Jarvis and he is proven guilty and in the very end is hung.

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"For the voice has magic in it, and i has threatening in it, and it is as though Africa itself were in it." -John Kumalo

John Kumalo is the brother of Stephen Kumalo. He moved to Johannesburg because he does not want to answer to the chief of their tribe anymore. He feels like the chief is not superior to him so he should not be in charge. Now in the city he is a great politician, a voice for the natives, he wants to create change for his people. When his son breaks into Arthur Jarvis's house he gets a lawyer to prove that his son was never there so that Absalom takes all the blame.

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"Our natives today produce criminals and prostitutes and drunkards, not because it is their nature to do so, but because their simple system of order and tradition and convention has been destroyed. It was destroyed by the impact of our own civilization." -Arthur Jarvis

Arthur Jarvis is the son of James Jarvis. He grew up in Ndotsheni and then moved into the city. He was a writer who influenced many people. He wrote about all the real problems going on in South Africa and how most people don't even know about them and about how he didn't realize the issues until he went into Johannesburg. He was fighting with the blacks for equal treatment. He believed that the reason natives committed crime was because their traditional order and convention has been destroyed by the white people who have pushed them lower in the social system. He was murdered by Absalom Kumalo while they were trying to break into his house. Even after he was dead he influenced many people through his writings.