The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985

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Recounts the life of an African sharecropper who struggled to beef up his circle of relatives in a world arranged to counterpoint whites and impoverish Blacks
History forgets the small and powerless. It’s to South African historian and journalist Charles Van Onselen’s credit that he has remembered considered one of them in a sprawling biography: an illiterate black South African tenant farmer who lived out his days under apartheid. The existence of Kas Maine (1894-1985) had hitherto been formally acknowledged only in official state records, after which only once, for having been arrested in 1931 for not having a license for his pet dog. From that sketchy base Van Onselen creates a powerful life study of a man who lived as perfect as he could under essentially the most trying circumstances. But he does a lot more than that: he reinforces Maine’s story with a long and fluent account of South African history within the last century.

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