Cry the Beloved Country

“Cry the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of it all, let him not love the earth too deeply. 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 off all if he lives too much. Yes cry, cry the beloved country”, This dirge of the battered of the …

…of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him off all if he lives too much. Yes cry, cry the beloved country”, This dirge of the battered of the battered South Africa in 1964 features in Alan Patons’ elegiac novel, “ Cry the Beloved Country”. The era in which it was at at time of white political hegemony in pre –apartheid South Africa