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1983

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2019

David Attwell
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University of York
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Somewhere on the East Coast

20 July 1983

Dear Chabani,

How are things at Wits? I hope you've settled in and housing problems have not proved to be impossible.

Ribs called me yesterday morning to tell me she has at last been given a pass. You'd think they would be just too keen to issue that kind of thing so they can more easily control niggers. One nigger more without a pass means one nigger more running loose in the country.

In passing she mentioned how impressed she is by your book. Says, however, it's wrong to say she was ‘not involved with Bantu Education’. I said in return I couldn't remember the context. I later recalled that's when we were talking about the high-school era when we were fired. And maybe I meant she was not in that nor involved in the public noises the ANC was making then. As an individual gesture, she resigned to go in for social work. I suspect her gripe is that she could not be said to have been indifferent or unaffected.

Was the excerpt of the ‘interview’ an extension of the one Staffrider carried, or an entirely different item? Anyhow, I thought to mention it in case she waylays me with a brick in hand when I arrive! Although I'm aching to return, there's no other way but to hang around to wait for events (must honour a visit to San Diego, after a few days, stay in N.Y. – all in the 1st two weeks of Aug. I am more or less sure my return will be Aug 15. Harry tells me there's a man in Bonn who'd like one to come through his country and see him about the Council. He hasn't written you; so I can't say whether I shall fly to W. German on the 14th or directly back. It would only be a day's stay at most.

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Bury Me at the Marketplace
Es'kia Mphahlele and Company: Letters 1943-2006
, pp. 449 - 450
Publisher: Wits University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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