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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.
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