Sindiwe Magona

Sindiwe Magona (born 27 August 1943) is a South African writer.

Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991)

 * She would fulfil her obligations as she understood them and provide for them. The only way she could be a mother to her children, she saw, would be to leave them
 * part one


 * Instead of being kind and buying this and that for the maid, just translate the kindness to this woman’s wages […]
 * part one


 * once the white child reaches the age of five and has to start school, the black child becomes an embarrassment, a visible reminder of the inequalities endemic in the society
 * Part two


 * the morning paper, the Cape Times, carried the story of the child murdered on the beach. Front page, the story made
 * Part two


 * Today, no one knows the name of the little girl found in a rubbish drum at the back of the butcher’s shop. They don’t know it today, for they never knew it then
 * Part two


 * Now that the pass has gone
 * Part two