1 00:00:56,556 --> 00:01:01,870 There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. 2 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,538 These hills are grass-covered and rolling, 3 00:01:04,539 --> 00:01:08,354 and they are lovely beyond any singing of it. 4 00:01:08,355 --> 00:01:12,294 The road climbs 7 miles into them, to Carisbrooke; 5 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:14,940 And from there, if there is no mist, 6 00:01:14,950 --> 00:01:20,016 you look down on one of the fairest valleys in Africa. 7 00:01:43,750 --> 00:01:48,567 CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY 8 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,786 Umfundisi! (Reverend) 9 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,549 Umfundisi. 10 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:22,199 Umfundisi. 11 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,582 Come in! 12 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:35,810 Yes? 13 00:03:35,821 --> 00:03:38,551 I bring a letter, Umfundisi. 14 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:40,800 A letter? 15 00:03:46,675 --> 00:03:47,990 Thank you. 16 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,523 Go well, my child. 17 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,651 Are you hungry, small one? 18 00:04:02,686 --> 00:04:04,883 A little hungry, umfundisi. 19 00:04:05,344 --> 00:04:09,000 Go to the mother, then. Perhaps she has some food. 20 00:04:09,423 --> 00:04:12,113 Thank you, umfundisi. 21 00:04:33,722 --> 00:04:35,240 Stephen! 22 00:04:35,250 --> 00:04:37,200 Has the child gone yet? 23 00:04:37,210 --> 00:04:39,499 She is still eating. 24 00:04:39,534 --> 00:04:41,127 Let her eat. 25 00:04:41,162 --> 00:04:43,540 She brought a letter. 26 00:04:43,550 --> 00:04:45,600 It is from Johannesburg. 27 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,090 It is not from Absalom, our son. 28 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,203 But perhaps it concerns him. 29 00:05:00,204 --> 00:05:04,042 Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps it is from brother John. 30 00:05:04,043 --> 00:05:06,622 We wanted a letter from Johannesburg, 31 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:08,940 but when it comes, 32 00:05:08,950 --> 00:05:11,190 we are afraid to open it. 33 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,890 Who is afraid? 34 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:14,793 Open it! 35 00:05:23,303 --> 00:05:23,963 Well? 36 00:05:23,964 --> 00:05:25,640 Is from the Mission House. 37 00:05:25,654 --> 00:05:28,536 "Sophiatown, Johannesburg." 38 00:05:28,571 --> 00:05:32,551 26, September, 1946. 39 00:05:33,085 --> 00:05:35,910 My dear brother in Christ... 40 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,443 I had the experience of meting a young woman 41 00:05:39,450 --> 00:05:41,598 here in Johannesburg. 42 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,017 She is your sister, 43 00:05:43,018 --> 00:05:45,837 Gertrude Kumalo. 44 00:05:46,188 --> 00:05:48,300 She is very sick 45 00:05:48,712 --> 00:05:53,545 "and I ask you to come quickly to Johannesburg." 46 00:05:54,300 --> 00:05:57,300 This is a journey I have always feared. 47 00:05:57,500 --> 00:05:59,940 When my people have gone, 48 00:05:59,950 --> 00:06:01,615 never to return, 49 00:06:01,686 --> 00:06:03,742 the young men have gone to the mines, 50 00:06:03,910 --> 00:06:06,272 so the young women go to find them. 51 00:06:06,314 --> 00:06:08,509 For who can enjoy the lovely land 52 00:06:08,679 --> 00:06:10,886 and the sun that pours down on the earth 53 00:06:10,887 --> 00:06:13,869 when white will note live equally with the black 54 00:06:13,870 --> 00:06:16,503 a land where the white man has evething 55 00:06:16,638 --> 00:06:19,422 and the black man nothing. 56 00:06:24,403 --> 00:06:26,300 12.56 lbs. 57 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,200 Take it all, Stephen. 58 00:06:29,650 --> 00:06:31,998 And the Post Office Book. 59 00:06:32,285 --> 00:06:34,921 There is 10 pounds in it. 60 00:06:34,950 --> 00:06:37,855 There mabe be doctors, hospitals, 61 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:39,800 other troubles. 62 00:06:40,231 --> 00:06:41,664 Please take it. 63 00:06:41,834 --> 00:06:45,155 You'll need it. 64 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,875 - They have blowed the last whistle, umfundisi. - Yes. 65 00:07:13,876 --> 00:07:16,054 The train is near. 66 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,036 I want to ask a favor, umfundisi. 67 00:07:21,766 --> 00:07:23,300 Ask the favor. 68 00:07:23,816 --> 00:07:25,350 You know Sibeko? 69 00:07:25,751 --> 00:07:27,104 Yes. 70 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:28,748 Well... 71 00:07:28,749 --> 00:07:31,270 Sibeko's daughter worked for this white man, uSmith. 72 00:07:31,550 --> 00:07:34,668 And when uSmith daughter married and moved to Johannesburg... 73 00:07:34,669 --> 00:07:38,143 Sibeko's daughter went with them to work. 74 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:43,841 But Sibeko has heard no word from her this past 10, 12 months. 75 00:07:47,244 --> 00:07:49,879 This is the address of uSmith's daughter. 76 00:07:50,467 --> 00:07:53,256 Sibeko asks that you inquire. 77 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:14,300 Grandfather! 78 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,972 My boy! 79 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,862 Hello! 80 00:08:26,650 --> 00:08:29,466 Lovely to see you both. You're looking marvelous. 81 00:08:29,535 --> 00:08:31,170 And how is your husband? 82 00:08:31,178 --> 00:08:33,852 Your son is in good health. Thank you. 83 00:08:35,042 --> 00:08:36,730 Is it true... 84 00:08:36,742 --> 00:08:39,400 that he opened a boy's club for blacks? 85 00:08:39,746 --> 00:08:41,241 Yes. 86 00:08:41,276 --> 00:08:44,300 The "Claremont African Boys Club". 87 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,290 What's he want to do that for? 88 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:49,500 I just don't understand Arthur. 89 00:08:49,577 --> 00:08:51,060 I guess 90 00:08:51,075 --> 00:08:53,850 I never will understand. 91 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:56,090 I wish he leave things as they are. 92 00:08:56,100 --> 00:08:59,025 I wish he face the reality. He's a dreamer. 93 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,161 Blacks have their place, we have our place. 94 00:09:02,162 --> 00:09:04,740 Blacks live their lives, we live our lives. 95 00:09:04,752 --> 00:09:06,481 But, separately. 96 00:09:08,776 --> 00:09:09,800 Do you know, Ian? 97 00:09:10,063 --> 00:09:11,500 There is an old saying, 98 00:09:11,501 --> 00:09:13,750 that "birds of a feather stick together". 99 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:15,840 Please! 100 00:09:15,850 --> 00:09:18,100 We're here for a family holiday. 101 00:09:18,278 --> 00:09:19,710 Well... 102 00:09:19,713 --> 00:09:23,013 why isn't he here, with his family... 103 00:09:23,048 --> 00:09:24,529 instead back there? 104 00:09:31,257 --> 00:09:32,800 Tell me, my friend: 105 00:09:32,801 --> 00:09:35,209 why did Sibeko not come to me himself? 106 00:09:35,210 --> 00:09:37,960 He was afraid, umfundisi. He is not of our church. 107 00:09:37,961 --> 00:09:39,868 Is he not of our people? 108 00:09:42,050 --> 00:09:43,246 Can a man in trouble... 109 00:09:43,247 --> 00:09:47,482 - go only to those of his church? - I shall tell him, umfundisi. 110 00:09:47,667 --> 00:09:48,890 Tell Sibeko... 111 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:51,340 I shall inquire about his daughter. Stay well, my friend. 112 00:09:51,353 --> 00:09:53,240 Go well, umfundisi. 113 00:09:53,259 --> 00:09:54,800 Go well... 114 00:11:09,650 --> 00:11:10,590 Hey, look! 115 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:12,190 The mines! 116 00:11:12,194 --> 00:11:13,494 Wake up! 117 00:11:13,495 --> 00:11:15,670 Is the mines! 118 00:11:23,950 --> 00:11:25,590 Umfundisi... 119 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,390 the train does not stop here. 120 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,790 Is this got to Johannesburg? 121 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,522 No, no, no... 122 00:11:31,773 --> 00:11:35,000 Umfundisi, Johannesburg still along way away. 123 00:11:59,004 --> 00:12:01,160 Welcome to Johannesburg Station. 124 00:12:01,161 --> 00:12:04,322 Passengers????? Name-checks in hand. 125 00:12:04,323 --> 00:12:06,861 Johannesburg Station. 126 00:12:14,595 --> 00:12:17,521 Now we are here, umfundisi: Johannesburg! 127 00:13:04,858 --> 00:13:06,867 - Where will you going, father? - Sophiatown. 128 00:13:06,868 --> 00:13:08,989 Aha, Sophiatown! 129 00:13:09,006 --> 00:13:11,801 Come with me then I shall show you. 130 00:13:11,803 --> 00:13:14,561 Thank you. Thank you. 131 00:13:28,219 --> 00:13:30,367 You must stand in this line, umfundisi. 132 00:13:35,190 --> 00:13:36,924 Shall I get the ticket for you, umfundisi? 133 00:13:36,925 --> 00:13:40,706 - For you not lose your place in the line. - Ah, thank you. You're kindness. 134 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,400 Friend. 135 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:21,890 Friend. 136 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:24,041 Please, tell me, where is the ticket office? 137 00:14:24,042 --> 00:14:26,789 - What ticket office, umfundisi? - For the ticket! 138 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:28,426 For the bus! 139 00:14:28,488 --> 00:14:30,678 You get the ticket in the bus. 140 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:33,956 There is not ticket office here. 141 00:14:34,970 --> 00:14:38,494 But... a young said... 142 00:14:39,658 --> 00:14:42,320 I gave him money for a ticket. 143 00:14:42,321 --> 00:14:45,548 You have been robbed, umfundisi. 144 00:14:45,897 --> 00:14:47,590 Where are you going to... 145 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,332 Sophiatown? 146 00:14:49,350 --> 00:14:50,755 Yes. 147 00:14:51,123 --> 00:14:52,816 The mission house. 148 00:14:54,487 --> 00:14:56,957 This way that the little our bus is coming... 149 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,257 and then I'll take you there. 150 00:15:36,274 --> 00:15:38,240 It's been a very long?????, umfundisi. 151 00:15:38,250 --> 00:15:41,371 And I tear it's only the beginning. 152 00:15:55,250 --> 00:15:57,500 Good evening, Rev. Msimangu. 153 00:15:57,550 --> 00:16:02,002 I bring a friend to you. The Reverend Kumalo, from Ndotsheni. 154 00:16:05,654 --> 00:16:07,833 I am glad to greet you. 155 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,505 - Please come in, come in. - Thank you. 156 00:16:14,368 --> 00:16:17,650 Lord God, we thank you for the food that has given us. 157 00:16:17,660 --> 00:16:20,000 We pray for those who are not afortunate, 158 00:16:20,002 --> 00:16:23,605 and we pray for our brother, Stephen Kumalo, our visitor, 159 00:16:23,804 --> 00:16:25,916 that he may do the hard work. 160 00:16:25,951 --> 00:16:28,340 In Jesus Christ. Amen. 161 00:16:28,350 --> 00:16:30,091 Amen. 162 00:16:31,850 --> 00:16:34,924 I think our visitor is in need of his bed. 163 00:16:37,576 --> 00:16:38,626 Reverendo Msimangu, 164 00:16:38,630 --> 00:16:40,900 would you show our visitor to his room? 165 00:16:45,288 --> 00:16:47,551 This will be your room, umfundisi. 166 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,420 Thank you, Ms. Lithebe. 167 00:16:49,422 --> 00:16:51,196 The father will only to sleep in here. 168 00:16:51,197 --> 00:16:53,854 He will take his meals with us in the mission. 169 00:16:55,700 --> 00:16:58,386 If does anything, please, ask, umfundisi. 170 00:16:58,390 --> 00:16:59,890 I thank you. 171 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:03,194 - Sleep well, umfundisi. - Sleep well, mother. 172 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:05,300 You will pardon me if I'm hasty, but 173 00:17:05,322 --> 00:17:07,279 I am anxious to hear about my sister. 174 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,931 Oh yes, yes, I'm sure you're anxiously. 175 00:17:10,100 --> 00:17:12,190 But... tell me first: 176 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,166 why did she come to Johannesburg? 177 00:17:14,170 --> 00:17:16,090 To look for her husband. 178 00:17:16,100 --> 00:17:17,814 He was recruited for the mines 179 00:17:17,815 --> 00:17:20,015 but he did not write 180 00:17:20,100 --> 00:17:21,947 and did not return. 181 00:17:21,950 --> 00:17:24,406 She took her small child and came to look for him. 182 00:17:26,018 --> 00:17:27,810 Is she very sick? 183 00:17:27,821 --> 00:17:29,900 Yes, she is very sick. 184 00:17:30,218 --> 00:17:33,015 But it is not that kind of sickness. 185 00:17:33,090 --> 00:17:34,140 She is a... 186 00:17:34,352 --> 00:17:35,110 prostitute. 187 00:17:35,129 --> 00:17:38,042 I do not know if she ever found her husband, 188 00:17:38,158 --> 00:17:40,737 but she has no husband now. 189 00:17:40,823 --> 00:17:42,499 She is in Claremont. 190 00:17:43,187 --> 00:17:46,533 It is the rubbish heap of the city. 191 00:17:48,643 --> 00:17:51,480 I have two other great sorrows. 192 00:17:51,716 --> 00:17:52,907 My son Absalom 193 00:17:52,908 --> 00:17:55,647 he came here also to look for my sister. 194 00:17:56,350 --> 00:17:59,565 - But... - We shall try to find him, my brother. 195 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:00,876 You are kind. 196 00:18:00,877 --> 00:18:02,527 I'm not kind. 197 00:18:02,837 --> 00:18:05,018 I'm a sinful and selfish man. 198 00:18:05,019 --> 00:18:08,516 But God put his hands on me, that is all. 199 00:18:09,876 --> 00:18:12,245 You said two great sorrows. 200 00:18:12,246 --> 00:18:14,510 I have a brother also here at Johannesburg. 201 00:18:14,524 --> 00:18:16,990 He too does not write anymore. 202 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,009 - John Kumalo - carpenter. - Ah! John Kumalo. 203 00:18:21,010 --> 00:18:23,778 Oh, yes, oh, yes, I know him. 204 00:18:24,150 --> 00:18:26,057 He is too busy to write. 205 00:18:26,058 --> 00:18:28,351 He is one of our great politicians. 206 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:31,650 Has no use for for the church anymore. 207 00:18:31,690 --> 00:18:33,761 He says that what God has not done for South Africa, 208 00:18:33,762 --> 00:18:36,030 man must do. 209 00:18:44,705 --> 00:18:46,690 This is a bitter journey. 210 00:18:46,700 --> 00:18:50,363 We shall start tomorrow and try to sweeten it. 211 00:18:50,460 --> 00:18:52,261 Sleep well. 212 00:18:52,263 --> 00:18:54,561 Go well, my brother. 213 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,856 Come here you, bitch! 214 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:41,340 I told you not to come here again. 215 00:19:41,350 --> 00:19:42,470 Just get out of here! 216 00:19:42,471 --> 00:19:45,120 Unless you want to be?????, umfundisi. 217 00:19:45,125 --> 00:19:47,170 Hey, where you think you're going to? 218 00:19:47,180 --> 00:19:49,010 Come back, you bastards! 219 00:19:49,350 --> 00:19:50,498 Hypocrites! 220 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,022 The lady in pink. Where is she? Have you seen her? 221 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:56,503 The lady in pink. 222 00:19:57,072 --> 00:19:58,229 Where is she? 223 00:19:58,250 --> 00:19:59,677 Have you seen her? 224 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:00,990 Where is she? 225 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,459 She is in here. 226 00:20:03,710 --> 00:20:06,893 Go well, umfundisi. Do well. 227 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:13,649 When you are ready, 228 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:16,587 you will find me the next door house, number thirteen. 229 00:20:16,622 --> 00:20:21,000 A man and a woman of our church live there. I'll wait. 230 00:21:01,929 --> 00:21:04,000 My sister... 231 00:21:04,736 --> 00:21:06,090 you've ashamed of us. 232 00:21:06,611 --> 00:21:08,190 Why, Gertrude? Why? 233 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,482 I had to have money for the child. 234 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:11,875 Where is the child? 235 00:21:11,876 --> 00:21:13,617 I will sent for him. 236 00:21:13,618 --> 00:21:16,200 Where is your husband? 237 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,130 I have not found him, my brother. 238 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:24,361 I have come to take you back. 239 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,999 Do you wish to come back? 240 00:21:28,850 --> 00:21:30,624 Do you wish with your heart 241 00:21:30,659 --> 00:21:32,559 to come back? 242 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:35,160 I do not like Johannesburg. 243 00:21:35,346 --> 00:21:38,619 I am a bad woman, my brother. I'm no woman to go back. 244 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,305 I've been in prision. 245 00:21:44,930 --> 00:21:47,647 No. I'm a bad woman. 246 00:21:50,243 --> 00:21:52,810 God forgives us! 247 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,207 You thieves. You're stealing my property. 248 00:22:14,208 --> 00:22:16,040 She is mine property, Bitch! 249 00:22:16,050 --> 00:22:17,595 You did want to leave me! 250 00:22:19,348 --> 00:22:22,102 Come back here! Come back here! 251 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,720 And you, why are you standing here? Getting back! Come on, back! 252 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,940 My son Absalom! 253 00:22:38,950 --> 00:22:41,200 Have you not heard of him? 254 00:22:41,550 --> 00:22:43,624 I did heard of him. 255 00:22:43,953 --> 00:22:45,626 He lived in Sophiatown. 256 00:22:45,627 --> 00:22:47,652 Where, I'm not sure. But... 257 00:22:47,653 --> 00:22:52,643 he was often together with the son of our brother John. He will know. 258 00:22:57,500 --> 00:23:01,622 - All we ask for is justice! - Justice! 259 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,732 Justice! 260 00:23:03,733 --> 00:23:05,381 Dignidade! 261 00:23:05,382 --> 00:23:08,690 Dec�ncia! 262 00:23:08,700 --> 00:23:12,691 Here in Johannesburg 263 00:23:12,692 --> 00:23:14,472 it is the mines! 264 00:23:14,473 --> 00:23:15,823 The mines! 265 00:23:15,824 --> 00:23:18,464 Everything is the mines. 266 00:23:18,591 --> 00:23:19,355 The mines! 267 00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:22,718 Everything the white man has is built... 268 00:23:22,950 --> 00:23:25,859 with the gold from the mines! 269 00:23:25,860 --> 00:23:27,504 The mines! 270 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,700 The hospital... 271 00:23:30,151 --> 00:23:32,832 for europeans... 272 00:23:33,557 --> 00:23:36,658 the biggest hospital south 273 00:23:36,659 --> 00:23:38,618 of the Ecuador... 274 00:23:38,906 --> 00:23:41,000 is built 275 00:23:41,123 --> 00:23:44,053 with the gold from the mines. 276 00:23:44,054 --> 00:23:46,379 The mines! 277 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,200 But... 278 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:52,860 go... 279 00:23:53,926 --> 00:23:57,690 go to our hospital... 280 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:02,867 and see our people... 281 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,226 lying on the floors. 282 00:24:07,850 --> 00:24:09,851 They lie so close 283 00:24:09,950 --> 00:24:13,652 you cannot step over them. 284 00:24:14,225 --> 00:24:16,620 Everything is built 285 00:24:16,629 --> 00:24:18,676 on our labour. 286 00:24:19,064 --> 00:24:21,585 And we get poorer 287 00:24:21,586 --> 00:24:24,932 and the white man gets richer. 288 00:24:24,933 --> 00:24:26,871 So now... 289 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:29,778 they will put up... 290 00:24:29,779 --> 00:24:32,642 our bus fares. 291 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,400 But we know how to answer them! 292 00:24:38,250 --> 00:24:42,500 We will do what must be done! 293 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:47,200 Talk to your brothers and to your sisters. 294 00:24:47,340 --> 00:24:50,378 Tell them what is decided. 295 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:53,500 Mbumba! 296 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,472 Go well. 297 00:24:56,473 --> 00:24:59,100 Stay well. 298 00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:34,601 Now the meeting is over, I'm locking up now. 299 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,055 Umfundisi! 300 00:25:38,536 --> 00:25:41,637 I'm surprised to see men of the cloth here tonight. 301 00:25:41,638 --> 00:25:43,900 Good evening my own brother. 302 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:45,750 Well, well! 303 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:47,722 What are you doing in Johannesburg? 304 00:25:48,088 --> 00:25:51,400 - Do you know the Reverend Msimangu? - Of course. 305 00:25:52,209 --> 00:25:54,700 Everybody knows the good Reverend. 306 00:25:54,961 --> 00:25:56,812 You did not write to us my brother. 307 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:57,890 Why? 308 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:01,850 You people in Ndotsheni do not understand the way life 309 00:26:02,143 --> 00:26:03,390 in Johannesburg. 310 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,190 I thought it better not to write. 311 00:26:05,204 --> 00:26:08,312 Trouble, unnecessary trouble. 312 00:26:08,313 --> 00:26:09,933 I want to ask you something, my brother. 313 00:26:09,934 --> 00:26:12,200 I do not give money to the church. 314 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:17,347 - Reverend Msimangu knows that. - No, no. It is not about the money. 315 00:26:18,363 --> 00:26:19,900 Where is my son? 316 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:24,950 Well... 317 00:26:24,969 --> 00:26:28,219 you have heard, no doubt, that he was friendly with my son. 318 00:26:28,220 --> 00:26:29,658 I have heard that, yes. 319 00:26:29,659 --> 00:26:32,649 Oh, then you know how these young men are. 320 00:26:32,650 --> 00:26:34,825 I do not blame them all together. 321 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:36,835 He wanted to live near his work. 322 00:26:36,836 --> 00:26:39,922 She had good work. So, I did not stop him. 323 00:26:39,950 --> 00:26:41,572 And your son went with him. 324 00:26:41,573 --> 00:26:43,000 And where, my brother? 325 00:26:43,250 --> 00:26:45,794 I have a letter from him here somewhere. Yes. 326 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,787 Yes, here it is. 327 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,560 Yes, with the address. 328 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:52,739 My worded date is over a year ago. 329 00:26:52,740 --> 00:26:54,885 I really must write to him. 330 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,602 Will we go. 331 00:27:00,637 --> 00:27:03,082 My hands are yours, my friend. 332 00:27:03,857 --> 00:27:08,860 - Sawabona. - Thank you. 333 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:26,374 My brother... is greately changed. 334 00:27:26,747 --> 00:27:28,697 But he has some truth on his side. 335 00:27:28,732 --> 00:27:29,724 Truth? 336 00:27:29,725 --> 00:27:31,994 But how can he have truth on his side and not God? 337 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:34,557 But at least he is got something. 338 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:36,085 Look around you. 339 00:27:36,086 --> 00:27:37,370 What do you see? 340 00:27:37,380 --> 00:27:39,849 Poverty, pain, suffering? 341 00:27:40,150 --> 00:27:43,252 Sometimes it's hard, even for me, to keep faith. 342 00:27:44,818 --> 00:27:46,752 Perhaps God is on his side. 343 00:27:46,753 --> 00:27:49,500 Only your brother does not want to know it anymore. 344 00:28:24,347 --> 00:28:26,400 Here, hold this. 345 00:28:51,735 --> 00:28:53,200 Well, captain... 346 00:28:53,450 --> 00:28:54,826 have you brought us some rain today? 347 00:28:54,827 --> 00:28:57,440 I don't see any Mr. Jarvis. 348 00:28:57,451 --> 00:28:59,765 Well, no. 349 00:29:00,265 --> 00:29:02,240 No... 350 00:29:02,250 --> 00:29:04,605 neither do I. 351 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,690 Mr. Jarvis... 352 00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:11,940 Tobias? Try the carburetor. 353 00:29:13,750 --> 00:29:14,446 Yes. 354 00:29:14,450 --> 00:29:17,373 I have some bad news for you, sir. 355 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:21,680 Is it my son? 356 00:29:21,694 --> 00:29:23,800 Yes, Mr. Jarvis. 357 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:27,500 Is he dead? 358 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:30,968 I'm afraid so, sir. 359 00:29:39,921 --> 00:29:41,390 Dead? 360 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,793 Yes, sir. 361 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:04,890 Sir! 362 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:06,105 I'm all right. 363 00:30:06,208 --> 00:30:07,270 I'm all right. 364 00:30:07,662 --> 00:30:09,823 I'm all right. 365 00:30:12,838 --> 00:30:15,190 - He was shot dead late in today in Johannesburg, sir. - Shot? 366 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:16,832 Shot? 367 00:30:16,867 --> 00:30:18,700 Shot? Dead? 368 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,100 Yes, sir. 369 00:30:21,924 --> 00:30:26,219 They suspect a native gang, sir. 370 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:28,671 A native gang? 371 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:30,373 Yes, sir. 372 00:30:32,942 --> 00:30:35,185 Did you know his wife is away, sir? 373 00:30:35,186 --> 00:30:36,550 His wife... 374 00:30:36,574 --> 00:30:38,531 Ah, yes, yes. She is... 375 00:30:38,532 --> 00:30:41,996 She is here. She is here with us. 376 00:30:42,505 --> 00:30:44,800 With her son... My... 377 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,203 My, my... my grandson. 378 00:30:50,770 --> 00:30:53,105 I'm sorry, Mr. Jarvis. 379 00:30:53,445 --> 00:30:55,490 I really I'm sorry to bring this new, sir. 380 00:30:55,500 --> 00:30:57,021 Is very kind of you. 381 00:30:57,250 --> 00:30:59,751 Is very kind of you. 382 00:31:01,091 --> 00:31:04,900 I'm instructed to offer you every assistances, Mr. Jarvis. 383 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:10,097 Is there someone around I can use the telephone? 384 00:31:17,958 --> 00:31:19,450 Shot dead? 385 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:20,990 Yes, sir. 386 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,958 Have you catch this... 387 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:24,900 gang of natives? 388 00:31:26,350 --> 00:31:28,793 Not yet, sir. 389 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,932 Oh, God... 390 00:31:32,967 --> 00:31:35,148 shot dead! 391 00:32:03,722 --> 00:32:06,404 Hello grand-daddy. 392 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:11,857 - He was our only child, do you know? - I know that, Mr. Jarvis. 393 00:32:23,233 --> 00:32:25,790 The telephone is in the hall. 394 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,167 - Is a party line. - Thank you, sir. 395 00:32:35,949 --> 00:32:38,294 Everything alright, dear? 396 00:32:40,477 --> 00:32:42,250 Yeah, I... 397 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,031 Ian... my study... 398 00:32:46,486 --> 00:32:47,919 my tobacco pouch... 399 00:32:47,923 --> 00:32:49,048 would you? 400 00:32:49,051 --> 00:32:50,873 He is a good lad. 401 00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:04,700 There's been... 402 00:33:04,735 --> 00:33:06,052 There's been an accident. 403 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,053 No! 404 00:33:08,088 --> 00:33:09,651 Mom! 405 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,500 Ah, yes, Captain Collins. 406 00:33:15,650 --> 00:33:18,650 This is a terrible thing whas happened. 407 00:33:18,655 --> 00:33:21,626 Arthur Jarvis was a courageous young man, 408 00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:24,873 and he was a great fighter for justice. 409 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:28,097 It is indeed a terrible thing. 410 00:33:28,132 --> 00:33:30,230 He was president of the African Boys' Club. 411 00:33:30,231 --> 00:33:33,100 Here in Claremont, in Gladiolus Street. 412 00:33:34,794 --> 00:33:36,638 We are talking about the murder. 413 00:33:36,639 --> 00:33:39,186 Everyone is talking about the murder. 414 00:33:39,221 --> 00:33:42,700 I expected you knew this man, Arthur Jarvis. 415 00:33:44,454 --> 00:33:47,064 - Jarvis? - He came from your part the country. 416 00:33:48,066 --> 00:33:50,476 It says here... Mr. Arthur Jarvis 417 00:33:50,511 --> 00:33:53,657 the only son os Mr. and Mrs. James Jarvis, 418 00:33:53,692 --> 00:33:55,500 Carlsbrooke, the town. 419 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,706 I know the father. 420 00:34:01,741 --> 00:34:04,124 I know him by sight and by name. 421 00:34:04,159 --> 00:34:06,316 We've never spoken. 422 00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:10,100 His farm is in the hills above Ndotsheni. 423 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,675 Sometimes he rode past my church. 424 00:34:14,263 --> 00:34:17,180 I did not known the son. 425 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,320 Yet... 426 00:34:23,037 --> 00:34:25,355 I remember... 427 00:34:25,356 --> 00:34:27,500 a small bright boy. 428 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,300 He too sometimes rode on his horse past the church. 429 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:54,500 Excuse me, umfundisi. Sorry. 430 00:34:56,459 --> 00:34:57,459 Umfundisi... 431 00:34:57,500 --> 00:34:58,797 are going to Alexandra? 432 00:34:58,850 --> 00:34:59,611 Yes. 433 00:34:59,612 --> 00:35:01,100 He are here to stop you. 434 00:35:01,250 --> 00:35:03,297 You see, if you take this bus... 435 00:35:03,418 --> 00:35:05,360 you are weakening the cause of the black people. 436 00:35:05,421 --> 00:35:07,218 Our business is very urgent. 437 00:35:07,284 --> 00:35:10,167 This boycott is also very urgent.. 438 00:35:10,202 --> 00:35:11,936 Is it that long way to walk? 439 00:35:11,971 --> 00:35:15,000 It is the long way, umfundisi. Perhaps 11 miles. 440 00:35:15,911 --> 00:35:17,661 That is a very long way for an old man. 441 00:35:17,662 --> 00:35:20,856 Men as old as you are doing it every day, umfundisi. 442 00:35:20,857 --> 00:35:22,161 And women. 443 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,564 And some are sick and some are crippled. And children. 444 00:35:25,565 --> 00:35:28,944 They start at four in the morning, and they turn at eight at night. 445 00:35:28,945 --> 00:35:31,397 I cannot stop you for taking this bus, but... 446 00:35:31,398 --> 00:35:33,618 this is a cause we are fighting for. 447 00:35:35,626 --> 00:35:39,351 - Very well. We shall not use the bus. - Thank you, umfundisi. 448 00:35:39,352 --> 00:35:41,400 Go well. 449 00:36:50,150 --> 00:36:52,058 Sawubona (Hello), Ms. Mkize. 450 00:36:52,059 --> 00:36:53,640 What do you want? 451 00:36:53,644 --> 00:36:56,700 We are here about Absalom Kumalo. 452 00:37:00,069 --> 00:37:01,700 When did he go? 453 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:05,400 A year it must be. 454 00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:07,417 - And had he a friend? - Sim. 455 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,744 The son of his father's brother. But they left together. 456 00:37:11,195 --> 00:37:12,719 And did you no know where they went? 457 00:37:12,754 --> 00:37:14,595 No, they talked of many places. 458 00:37:14,596 --> 00:37:19,129 And how did he behave himself, this Absalom Kumalo? 459 00:37:19,380 --> 00:37:21,900 - I saw nothing wrong. - But you guess that was something... 460 00:37:21,901 --> 00:37:22,797 There was nothing wrong. 461 00:37:22,798 --> 00:37:25,204 - Then why are you afraid. - I'm not afraid. 462 00:37:26,550 --> 00:37:30,936 - Why do you tremble? - Because I'm cold. 463 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:53,600 There is something wrong. 464 00:37:54,250 --> 00:37:57,155 My friend, two of us are on too many. 465 00:37:57,156 --> 00:38:03,156 Turn left that a big street. There is a place of refreshment. Wait for me there. 466 00:38:10,492 --> 00:38:12,500 Mrs. Mkize! 467 00:38:12,936 --> 00:38:14,700 Mrs. Mkize! 468 00:38:14,819 --> 00:38:17,051 - Mrs. Mkize! - What do you want? 469 00:38:17,052 --> 00:38:19,710 That old man was with me is the father of Absalom Kumalo. 470 00:38:19,711 --> 00:38:21,796 He is suffering because cannot find his son. 471 00:38:21,831 --> 00:38:24,360 - That is a bad thing. - Yes it is a bad thing. 472 00:38:24,395 --> 00:38:26,899 - Tell me what you would not tell to him. - I have nothing to tell. 473 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:28,743 No doubt and if it is necessary I shall go to the police 474 00:38:28,744 --> 00:38:30,041 because there will be no other place to go. 475 00:38:30,042 --> 00:38:31,454 It is hard for a woman who is alone. 476 00:38:31,455 --> 00:38:33,449 It is hard for an old man looking for his son. 477 00:38:33,450 --> 00:38:35,000 No, I'm afraid. 478 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:38,243 I swear to you on this "Book"... 479 00:38:38,244 --> 00:38:40,686 that no trouble will come to you of this. 480 00:38:40,721 --> 00:38:42,735 For we seek only a boy. 481 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,100 So help me God! 482 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,200 What sort of a life did they lead? 483 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,290 They brought many things here, umfundisi. 484 00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:55,600 What things? 485 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,246 Clothes, watches, money... 486 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,453 food in bottles and tins and many other things. 487 00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:03,854 And why did they leave? 488 00:39:03,855 --> 00:39:06,886 I think they were been near to being discovered, umfundisi. 489 00:39:07,227 --> 00:39:08,460 And they left when? 490 00:39:08,470 --> 00:39:10,255 About a year, since. 491 00:39:10,352 --> 00:39:12,500 Indeed as I told you. 492 00:39:12,717 --> 00:39:15,459 But I do not know where they have gone. 493 00:39:20,850 --> 00:39:22,200 Thank you. 494 00:39:31,706 --> 00:39:33,963 Umfundisi! 495 00:39:37,411 --> 00:39:39,679 They were friend with a taxi driver, Hiabeni. 496 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,894 You'll find him at the bus stop. Everyone knows him. 497 00:39:43,750 --> 00:39:46,585 Thank you, Ms. Mkize. 498 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,285 - Mr. Hiabeni... - How did you know my name? 499 00:40:00,250 --> 00:40:02,818 A little black bird told me. 500 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:05,593 She also told me you can help us find a young man, 501 00:40:05,594 --> 00:40:08,119 Absalom Kumalo. 502 00:40:09,550 --> 00:40:11,773 I'm not here to make troubles for you. 503 00:40:11,900 --> 00:40:14,252 But may companion is the father of the young man. 504 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,699 Nice to meet you, umfundisi. 505 00:40:18,909 --> 00:40:21,200 He has come from Natal to find him. 506 00:40:21,352 --> 00:40:22,650 Can you help us? 507 00:40:22,875 --> 00:40:26,257 - I knew this young man, umfundisi. - And where is he now? 508 00:40:26,321 --> 00:40:28,208 I heard he was gone to Orlando. 509 00:40:28,922 --> 00:40:30,891 But, Orlando is big place. 510 00:40:31,489 --> 00:40:33,750 Where the squatters are. It is not so big. 511 00:40:56,230 --> 00:40:57,280 Nurse. 512 00:40:58,900 --> 00:40:59,999 Mr. Msimangu! 513 00:41:00,536 --> 00:41:02,890 - Sawubona (I see you). - Yebo (yes, I see you too). 514 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:06,755 You know everyone in this... godforsaken place. 515 00:41:07,180 --> 00:41:08,800 We are looking for a young man... 516 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,800 the son of my brother, here. 517 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,033 The boy's name is Absalom Kumalo. 518 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:16,850 Did you ever know him? 519 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,060 - Yes. - And where does he live? 520 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,690 I'm sorry, umfundisi... 521 00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:25,780 this time he is not here. 522 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,680 They took him away. 523 00:41:27,684 --> 00:41:30,271 The magistrate sent him to the reformatory. 524 00:41:30,750 --> 00:41:31,499 - Derick! - Present! 525 00:41:31,502 --> 00:41:32,530 - Tumi! - Present! 526 00:41:32,532 --> 00:41:33,601 - Dembiso! - Present! 527 00:41:33,602 --> 00:41:34,134 - David! - Present! 528 00:41:34,235 --> 00:41:36,440 Strange! 529 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,013 Absalom tol us 530 00:41:38,014 --> 00:41:39,600 he had no people. 531 00:41:39,624 --> 00:41:42,373 He was, no doubt, ashamed. 532 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:45,679 Your son did very well with us, umfundisi. 533 00:41:45,854 --> 00:41:49,406 He became one of our senior boys and I have great hope for his future. 534 00:41:49,441 --> 00:41:51,500 You mean, sir, that he is gone? 535 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:54,670 Yes. 536 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:57,550 But only a month ago. 537 00:41:57,700 --> 00:41:59,889 We released him early. 538 00:41:59,890 --> 00:42:04,869 Partly because of his age and partly because of his good behaviour. 539 00:42:08,050 --> 00:42:12,500 But mainly because there was a girl who is pregnant by him. 540 00:42:15,150 --> 00:42:17,200 And is he now married, sir? 541 00:42:17,230 --> 00:42:20,100 No, umfundisi, he is not married. 542 00:42:20,853 --> 00:42:22,915 But that not must to worry you. 543 00:42:22,980 --> 00:42:24,353 The real question is 544 00:42:24,354 --> 00:42:27,800 whether he will care for them, and lead a decent life. 545 00:42:27,900 --> 00:42:31,390 We arrange housing for them at Pimville. 546 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:36,517 So If you waited until I finish my work, I can take you to see them . 547 00:42:47,398 --> 00:42:50,318 We have come to inquire after Absalom. 548 00:42:50,793 --> 00:42:53,311 This umfundisi is his father. 549 00:42:54,905 --> 00:42:59,331 He went on Saturday to Springs. Has not yet returned. 550 00:42:59,555 --> 00:43:01,600 But this is Tuesday. 551 00:43:05,377 --> 00:43:07,650 Have you heard nothing from him? 552 00:43:07,878 --> 00:43:09,901 Nothing. 553 00:43:12,097 --> 00:43:14,368 When will he return? 554 00:43:14,369 --> 00:43:15,700 I do not know. 555 00:43:16,559 --> 00:43:18,660 What will you do? 556 00:43:20,850 --> 00:43:23,212 I do not know. 557 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,800 You can do nothing here. Let us go. 558 00:43:25,822 --> 00:43:26,989 - Hey... - I tell you... 559 00:43:26,990 --> 00:43:28,580 you can do nothing. 560 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,506 Have you not troubles enough of your own? 561 00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:32,780 There are thousands like her in Johannesburg. 562 00:43:32,794 --> 00:43:34,800 You do not understand. 563 00:43:34,918 --> 00:43:38,888 - That child will you be my grandchild. - Great! 564 00:43:39,250 --> 00:43:42,250 Even that you do not know. 565 00:43:44,075 --> 00:43:46,138 Thank you. 566 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,719 Do not give up hope, umfundisi. 567 00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:15,294 And I will not give up the search. 568 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,619 He is a good man. 569 00:44:27,620 --> 00:44:29,435 Come, let us walk. 570 00:44:35,300 --> 00:44:37,200 What is it my friend? 571 00:44:38,300 --> 00:44:40,647 I am ashamed to walk with you. 572 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,740 I ask you forgiveness my ugly words. 573 00:44:47,775 --> 00:44:49,813 You mean about the girl? 574 00:44:49,850 --> 00:44:52,113 You are quick to understand. 575 00:44:52,114 --> 00:44:53,800 I'm old. 576 00:44:54,100 --> 00:44:57,302 Have learned something. 577 00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,967 You are forgiven. 578 00:45:37,123 --> 00:45:39,438 I am sorry. 579 00:45:41,331 --> 00:45:44,126 What can I say? 580 00:45:48,700 --> 00:45:49,790 Mary. 581 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,200 I'm sorry, Mary. 582 00:45:53,700 --> 00:45:54,631 I... 583 00:45:54,632 --> 00:45:57,362 taken the liberty to you of canceling your hotel booking on. 584 00:45:57,397 --> 00:45:59,440 I thought will might personal with us. 585 00:45:59,448 --> 00:46:01,371 Very good of you, Glyn. 586 00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:03,900 This two officers want to hear a word of you. 587 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,223 Why don't you go to the car? Be with you in a minute. 588 00:46:07,336 --> 00:46:09,632 Come on, Mary. I am so sorry. 589 00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:14,362 Please, accept our deep sympathy, Mr. Jarvis. 590 00:46:14,397 --> 00:46:16,569 I'm sorry to have to do this to you the moment you arrived 591 00:46:16,570 --> 00:46:18,920 but you need formululize the identification of the body. 592 00:46:18,921 --> 00:46:20,340 Mr. Henderson near offer to do it, 593 00:46:20,350 --> 00:46:21,729 but it needs to be next of kin. 594 00:46:21,730 --> 00:46:24,199 - In fact needs to be... - No! I'll do it. 595 00:46:24,550 --> 00:46:26,689 I will be with Mary. 596 00:46:28,398 --> 00:46:31,498 - Have you caught the killers? - Not yet. 597 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:38,534 My son was that champion, you know? 598 00:47:14,608 --> 00:47:17,300 Bloody kaffers. 599 00:47:17,350 --> 00:47:20,356 Whoever did this... 600 00:47:20,860 --> 00:47:23,500 find them... 601 00:47:23,820 --> 00:47:26,556 hang them! 602 00:47:27,150 --> 00:47:29,150 Bastards! 603 00:47:29,513 --> 00:47:32,200 Bloody bastards! 604 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,711 Pastures green he leadeth me 605 00:47:39,712 --> 00:47:41,718 the quiet waters... 606 00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:20,791 "There is fear in the land..." 607 00:48:20,958 --> 00:48:24,601 And fear in the hearts of all who live there. 608 00:48:24,602 --> 00:48:29,370 And fear puts an end to understanding and the need to understand. 609 00:48:29,534 --> 00:48:33,904 So how shall we fashion such a land when there is fear in the heart? 610 00:48:33,905 --> 00:48:36,825 The white man will put more locks on his door... 611 00:48:36,826 --> 00:48:38,890 and get a fine fierce dog... 612 00:48:38,900 --> 00:48:41,748 but the beauty of the trees and of the stars... 613 00:48:41,915 --> 00:48:45,258 these things we shall forego. 614 00:48:45,641 --> 00:48:48,209 Cry, the beloved country... 615 00:48:48,244 --> 00:48:49,826 for the unborn child... 616 00:48:49,827 --> 00:48:52,190 that is the inheritor of our fear. 617 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,749 Let him not love the earth too deeply. 618 00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:58,722 Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing... 619 00:48:58,723 --> 00:49:02,371 nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. 620 00:49:02,716 --> 00:49:07,286 For fear will rob him of all if his gives too much. 621 00:49:07,776 --> 00:49:08,478 Yes.,.. 622 00:49:08,532 --> 00:49:09,772 Cry... 623 00:49:10,004 --> 00:49:11,116 cry... 624 00:49:11,217 --> 00:49:13,300 "the beloved country." 625 00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:54,800 The police way here, my child? 626 00:49:55,300 --> 00:49:58,327 - Yes, umfundisi. - And what do they want? 627 00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:02,152 - They wanted Absalom, umfundisi. - And why do they want him? 628 00:50:02,354 --> 00:50:03,990 I do not know. 629 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,722 - And why did you not ask? - I was afraid. 630 00:50:07,723 --> 00:50:09,990 Did no one asked? 631 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:15,382 The women were about. Maybe one of them asked. 632 00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,890 This is exactly your son leaved, Mr. Jarvis. 633 00:50:25,900 --> 00:50:28,040 Nothing is been touched. 634 00:50:28,050 --> 00:50:29,707 Thank you. 635 00:50:30,457 --> 00:50:33,457 I'll be in the car if there is anything else. 636 00:50:39,155 --> 00:50:41,104 James, ????? So his papers for you, if you like. 637 00:50:41,105 --> 00:50:42,406 No, no, no, no. Thank you, Glyn. 638 00:50:42,407 --> 00:50:46,500 This is something I wish to do myself. 639 00:51:04,500 --> 00:51:07,204 Well, this is ironic. 640 00:51:07,950 --> 00:51:09,107 What is? 641 00:51:09,109 --> 00:51:12,835 He must to be writing this, when... 642 00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,255 when... 643 00:51:17,500 --> 00:51:19,463 "It is not" 644 00:51:19,493 --> 00:51:21,716 native crime... 645 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:26,025 "which is the problem, but white crime." 646 00:51:26,953 --> 00:51:30,100 Arthur and I didn't always agree on the native question. He... 647 00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:32,500 He was an idealist. 648 00:51:32,740 --> 00:51:34,712 Yes, yes, yes. 649 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,850 I think he ought be hard on the natives, but also he... 650 00:51:38,878 --> 00:51:41,833 he said the whatever crimes they committed 651 00:51:41,834 --> 00:51:43,792 we more less our fault. 652 00:51:44,488 --> 00:51:47,272 I don't really understand. 653 00:51:47,348 --> 00:51:50,209 I don't mean that he wasn't sincere. 654 00:51:51,156 --> 00:51:54,708 No, no, no. Of course not, of course not. 655 00:51:55,258 --> 00:51:58,400 "What sort of memorial do we want?" 656 00:51:58,767 --> 00:51:59,915 What? 657 00:52:00,002 --> 00:52:03,560 I'm... I'm... I'm reading what... 658 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:04,958 he wrote... 659 00:52:05,283 --> 00:52:07,571 just before I if... 660 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,047 "What sort of memorial" 661 00:52:11,048 --> 00:52:13,451 do we deserve? 662 00:52:13,864 --> 00:52:17,445 We call ourselves Christian people. 663 00:52:17,700 --> 00:52:21,342 When posterity come to judge us 664 00:52:21,377 --> 00:52:23,900 it will consign us 665 00:52:23,928 --> 00:52:26,573 to this... 666 00:52:30,650 --> 00:52:34,833 the sewers of history... 667 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,059 as tyrants... 668 00:52:39,060 --> 00:52:41,744 oppressors... 669 00:52:42,878 --> 00:52:45,500 "and criminals." 670 00:52:46,125 --> 00:52:47,190 Sir... 671 00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,802 I'm sorry for interrupting you, but... 672 00:52:48,907 --> 00:52:50,700 I thought you would like to know. 673 00:52:50,750 --> 00:52:52,232 We've caught them. 674 00:52:52,233 --> 00:52:53,700 All three of them. 675 00:52:53,900 --> 00:52:56,663 And we know which one pull the trigger. 676 00:53:03,522 --> 00:53:05,800 I came as soon as I heard. 677 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,200 Thank you. 678 00:53:10,350 --> 00:53:13,591 One of the other two is the son of your brother. 679 00:53:23,550 --> 00:53:24,957 Absalom Kumalo? 680 00:53:25,150 --> 00:53:26,602 In there. 681 00:53:26,603 --> 00:53:28,099 Matthew Kumalo? 682 00:53:28,100 --> 00:53:29,871 In there. 683 00:53:43,300 --> 00:53:45,340 At last I have found you. 684 00:53:45,350 --> 00:53:48,438 I have search in every place for you. 685 00:53:49,693 --> 00:53:52,315 Why did you do this terrible thing? 686 00:53:53,550 --> 00:53:55,750 Answer me, my child. 687 00:53:55,867 --> 00:53:57,920 I do not know. 688 00:53:58,187 --> 00:54:00,500 Why did you carry a revolver? 689 00:54:01,961 --> 00:54:04,323 For safety, my father. 690 00:54:04,707 --> 00:54:07,030 This Joanesburgo is a dangerous place. 691 00:54:07,031 --> 00:54:09,768 A man never knows when he is going to be attacked. 692 00:54:10,484 --> 00:54:13,815 But why take it to the house? 693 00:54:16,100 --> 00:54:18,100 Have they got it, my child? 694 00:54:20,300 --> 00:54:22,590 They have no doubt it was you? 695 00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,200 I told them. 696 00:54:26,750 --> 00:54:28,470 What did you tell them? 697 00:54:29,900 --> 00:54:34,249 I told them I was frightened when the white man came. So I shot him. 698 00:54:34,513 --> 00:54:37,419 I did not mean to kill him. 699 00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,590 And your cousin and the other? 700 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:41,710 Yes. 701 00:54:41,728 --> 00:54:44,000 I told them. They came with me, 702 00:54:44,450 --> 00:54:47,159 but it was I who shot the white man. 703 00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:51,000 Absalom... 704 00:54:51,338 --> 00:54:52,790 Sir... 705 00:54:52,950 --> 00:54:55,300 I shall do what I can for you. 706 00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,110 He's got one minute! 707 00:54:59,122 --> 00:55:00,934 My child... 708 00:55:00,935 --> 00:55:04,598 do not write to your mother untill I see you again. 709 00:55:04,633 --> 00:55:06,500 I must first write to her. 710 00:55:06,648 --> 00:55:08,227 It's good, my father. 711 00:55:08,350 --> 00:55:11,695 Come on, come on. We haven't got all day. 712 00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:17,858 Stay well, my child. 713 00:55:18,300 --> 00:55:21,300 Go well, my father. 714 00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,601 We should go at once and see a lawyer. 715 00:55:25,602 --> 00:55:28,183 What should we spend such money? 716 00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,145 The story is plain... 717 00:55:30,146 --> 00:55:32,593 there cannot be doubt about it. 718 00:55:34,436 --> 00:55:36,328 What is the story? 719 00:55:36,329 --> 00:55:37,900 They broke into that house, 720 00:55:38,150 --> 00:55:39,781 they struck down the servant. 721 00:55:39,782 --> 00:55:41,490 And my son, not yours, 722 00:55:41,500 --> 00:55:43,300 shot the white man. 723 00:55:43,737 --> 00:55:45,355 My son was afraid, he says... 724 00:55:45,356 --> 00:55:47,444 And he told them this. 725 00:55:47,445 --> 00:55:49,720 Why not, if that was the truth? 726 00:55:49,755 --> 00:55:51,792 Perhaps you do not need a lawyer. 727 00:55:51,793 --> 00:55:53,100 Will you have a lawyer then? 728 00:55:53,513 --> 00:55:55,290 Perhaps. 729 00:55:55,300 --> 00:55:57,570 But, you see my brother 730 00:55:57,595 --> 00:55:59,443 there is no proof 731 00:55:59,445 --> 00:56:02,532 that my son or this other young man 732 00:56:02,533 --> 00:56:04,441 was there at all. 733 00:56:05,700 --> 00:56:07,608 What do you mean? 734 00:56:07,609 --> 00:56:09,990 My son says that was... Yes, yes, yes, yes... 735 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:11,890 But, who... 736 00:56:11,900 --> 00:56:14,365 will believe your son? 737 00:56:37,374 --> 00:56:40,550 CLAREMONT, BOYS CLUB FOR AFRICANS 738 00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,520 Yeah, yeah, right, right. 739 00:57:40,950 --> 00:57:44,000 Can I help you, sir? 740 00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:56,348 My name is Robert Ndela. 741 00:57:56,383 --> 00:57:58,840 I'm the secretary in here. 742 00:57:58,850 --> 00:58:00,902 I'm a teacher. 743 00:58:01,700 --> 00:58:04,619 I'm Arthur's father. 744 00:58:06,394 --> 00:58:09,425 It's a friend. Carry on. 745 00:58:11,250 --> 00:58:14,477 I'm sorry for your loss. 746 00:58:16,900 --> 00:58:19,500 I'm afraid I... 747 00:58:19,850 --> 00:58:22,427 I have no office, but... 748 00:58:29,146 --> 00:58:32,200 we'll never be able to thank him in properly. 749 00:58:32,451 --> 00:58:34,244 He bought us... 750 00:58:34,250 --> 00:58:37,130 he bought us all this. 751 00:58:40,464 --> 00:58:43,379 But these were small things, sir. 752 00:58:43,700 --> 00:58:47,124 What your son truly gave to us... 753 00:58:47,989 --> 00:58:50,200 was himself... 754 00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:53,742 his time... 755 00:58:53,824 --> 00:58:56,127 his heart. 756 00:58:56,856 --> 00:59:01,500 His believe in a better future. 757 00:59:04,021 --> 00:59:06,012 Yes. 758 00:59:11,615 --> 00:59:13,490 I've read... 759 00:59:13,500 --> 00:59:16,055 some of the things he said he believed in. 760 00:59:18,703 --> 00:59:20,885 Sir... 761 00:59:23,550 --> 00:59:25,910 to my knowledge 762 00:59:25,921 --> 00:59:28,474 your son never said... 763 00:59:28,477 --> 00:59:30,890 he believed in something... 764 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,208 unless he believed it. 765 00:59:37,750 --> 00:59:40,396 I would like nothing better... 766 00:59:41,350 --> 00:59:44,472 than to understand my boy. 767 00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,340 He's the only man I've ever met... 768 00:59:50,359 --> 00:59:52,747 black or white... 769 00:59:53,404 --> 00:59:56,388 who saw me for what I am. 770 00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,000 What I really am. 771 00:59:59,323 --> 01:00:01,323 Yes. 772 01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:08,276 He was on your side... 773 01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:10,233 which makes what happened�. 774 01:00:10,500 --> 01:00:12,858 He was on no one's side, sir. 775 01:00:13,900 --> 01:00:16,061 Except, perhaps, sir... 776 01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:19,168 yours and mine. 777 01:00:20,368 --> 01:00:22,863 You must be proud of him. 778 01:00:23,750 --> 01:00:26,851 He's a tribute to you. 779 01:01:04,584 --> 01:01:06,540 There were something... 780 01:01:06,550 --> 01:01:08,366 Arthur wrote... 781 01:01:08,367 --> 01:01:11,386 that day that he... 782 01:01:13,142 --> 01:01:14,972 He said: 783 01:01:15,500 --> 01:01:17,610 that we told him were nothing. 784 01:01:17,618 --> 01:01:19,120 What did he mean? 785 01:01:19,130 --> 01:01:21,374 He meant that we told him... 786 01:01:21,650 --> 01:01:23,700 nothing... 787 01:01:23,710 --> 01:01:26,976 about the country in which we lived. 788 01:01:27,650 --> 01:01:29,650 He said: 789 01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:33,473 that we called ourselves christians... 790 01:01:33,508 --> 01:01:35,469 but we are... 791 01:01:35,750 --> 01:01:37,890 indifferent... 792 01:01:37,900 --> 01:01:41,082 to the sufferings of christians. 793 01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:44,484 He said: 794 01:01:44,490 --> 01:01:48,582 that when we say we are Christians... 795 01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,936 what we mean is... 796 01:01:53,166 --> 01:01:56,640 that we are white. 797 01:02:01,216 --> 01:02:03,223 Why? 798 01:02:03,258 --> 01:02:06,379 Why, why, why? 799 01:02:06,900 --> 01:02:09,617 Do we bring children 800 01:02:09,620 --> 01:02:12,975 into this world? 801 01:02:14,985 --> 01:02:16,604 Come... 802 01:02:16,610 --> 01:02:18,800 come to bed. 803 01:02:19,850 --> 01:02:22,622 Good morning, umfundisi. 804 01:02:24,300 --> 01:02:28,589 - And... how are you, my child? - I am well, umfundisi. 805 01:02:29,550 --> 01:02:31,860 Have you heard about Absalom? 806 01:02:31,870 --> 01:02:34,458 I have not had, umfundisi. 807 01:02:37,870 --> 01:02:40,900 What I have to say is heavy. 808 01:02:41,298 --> 01:02:42,966 He is in prision. 809 01:02:43,550 --> 01:02:45,700 - In prision? - Yes. 810 01:02:45,710 --> 01:02:48,390 And for the most terrible deed that a man can do. 811 01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:49,850 He has killed a man. 812 01:02:58,058 --> 01:02:59,300 Child... 813 01:02:59,309 --> 01:03:02,331 do you wish to marry my son? 814 01:03:03,050 --> 01:03:04,903 It is as the umfundisi sees it. 815 01:03:04,904 --> 01:03:07,540 I am asking you, my child. 816 01:03:08,650 --> 01:03:10,121 I can be willing. 817 01:03:10,122 --> 01:03:13,682 It is truth will you wish to marry him? 818 01:03:14,172 --> 01:03:16,939 It is truly my wish, umfundisi. 819 01:03:18,822 --> 01:03:21,018 I must be certain. 820 01:03:21,816 --> 01:03:25,000 I do not wish to take you into my family 821 01:03:25,500 --> 01:03:28,000 if you are unwilling. 822 01:03:29,950 --> 01:03:32,593 I'm willing. 823 01:03:49,202 --> 01:03:50,850 Mr. Carmichael... 824 01:03:50,900 --> 01:03:52,894 does my son have any chance? 825 01:03:52,895 --> 01:03:56,959 Well... it is a simple case in many ways. 826 01:03:57,211 --> 01:04:00,300 Your son said that he fired because he was afraid. 827 01:04:00,612 --> 01:04:03,802 That he, indeed, not meant to kill. 828 01:04:03,948 --> 01:04:07,290 I shall take the case for you Mr. Kumalo. 829 01:04:07,300 --> 01:04:10,563 I shall take it "pro deo", as we say. 830 01:04:10,692 --> 01:04:13,491 And this my brother, John Kumalo, 831 01:04:13,492 --> 01:04:15,030 engaged a lawyer also? 832 01:04:15,100 --> 01:04:16,497 Oh, yes. 833 01:04:16,750 --> 01:04:18,990 They all say that your son is lying... 834 01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,200 and that the others two boys went there at all. 835 01:04:22,300 --> 01:04:25,484 I don't believe your son is lying 836 01:04:25,500 --> 01:04:30,509 and that's my job to persuade the court and he speaking the truth. 837 01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:33,100 Is that clear, Mr. Kumalo? 838 01:04:34,650 --> 01:04:36,673 Yes, sir. 839 01:04:39,686 --> 01:04:40,736 My brother... 840 01:04:41,050 --> 01:04:43,126 you should thank God for the lawyer. 841 01:04:43,153 --> 01:04:44,116 He is a good lawyer... 842 01:04:44,117 --> 01:04:45,684 and a good friend to our people. 843 01:04:46,056 --> 01:04:47,553 How can I thank God for the lawyer... 844 01:04:47,900 --> 01:04:50,369 and don't have money to pay him? 845 01:04:50,370 --> 01:04:52,540 Did you not hear what he said? 846 01:04:52,550 --> 01:04:55,246 That he will take the case "pro deo". 847 01:04:55,247 --> 01:04:58,836 Which means that it will cost you nothing. 848 01:05:06,445 --> 01:05:08,837 I wish I didn't cry so easily. 849 01:05:08,872 --> 01:05:11,100 I cry too easily in this days. 850 01:05:12,902 --> 01:05:15,000 Go well, umfundisi. 851 01:05:18,500 --> 01:05:19,575 Sides in court: 852 01:05:19,576 --> 01:05:22,157 white to the left, non-european to the right. 853 01:05:22,158 --> 01:05:24,500 All rise! 854 01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:40,061 Absalom Kumalo, Matthew Kumalo and Johannes Pafuri... 855 01:05:40,100 --> 01:05:42,908 you are charged the murder of Arthur Trevelyan Jarvis 856 01:05:42,910 --> 01:05:46,090 in his house at Plantation Road, Parkwold, Johannesburg... 857 01:05:46,100 --> 01:05:50,005 on Tuesday, the eighth day of October, 1946. 858 01:05:52,300 --> 01:05:53,320 Absalom Kumalo... 859 01:05:53,331 --> 01:05:55,255 how do you plead: Guilty or not guilty? 860 01:05:55,900 --> 01:05:57,798 I plead guilty to the killing. 861 01:05:57,799 --> 01:05:59,800 But I did not meant to kill. 862 01:05:59,860 --> 01:06:02,300 Matthew Kumalo, how do you plead: Guilty or not guilty? 863 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,650 I'm not guilty. 864 01:06:05,503 --> 01:06:08,517 Johannes Pafuri, how do you plead: Guilty or not guilty? 865 01:06:10,412 --> 01:06:12,784 I'm also not guilty, sir. 866 01:06:13,700 --> 01:06:14,700 My lord... 867 01:06:14,896 --> 01:06:18,813 my client, Absalom Kumalo, will plead guilty to culpable homicide, 868 01:06:18,814 --> 01:06:20,673 for he had no intention to kill. 869 01:06:20,674 --> 01:06:24,790 My lord, there is no charge of culpable homicide. 870 01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:28,100 This is a case of murder and nothing less than murder. 871 01:06:28,301 --> 01:06:30,309 And that is with murder that the accused, 872 01:06:30,310 --> 01:06:33,786 Absalom Kumalo, is charged. 873 01:06:34,750 --> 01:06:38,044 - In that case... - He will plead not guilty. 874 01:06:38,083 --> 01:06:40,174 If it please the court... 875 01:06:40,340 --> 01:06:43,321 the facts of this horrifying crime are simple 876 01:06:43,322 --> 01:06:45,290 and straightforward. 877 01:06:45,300 --> 01:06:47,399 Three men set out to rob. 878 01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:50,766 One of them carried revolver. 879 01:06:55,330 --> 01:06:57,953 And where was this? 880 01:06:59,759 --> 01:07:01,438 In my hand. 881 01:07:01,768 --> 01:07:05,230 And then what happended? 882 01:07:05,481 --> 01:07:09,611 - The white man came into the passage. - Yes, yes. And then? 883 01:07:09,967 --> 01:07:12,071 I was frightened. 884 01:07:12,250 --> 01:07:14,903 I fired the revolver. 885 01:07:15,822 --> 01:07:18,346 And then? 886 01:07:21,381 --> 01:07:24,323 - The white man felt. - Thank you. 887 01:07:24,324 --> 01:07:27,156 Yes, Mr. Carmichael. 888 01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:32,079 Why did you carry this revolver? 889 01:07:32,177 --> 01:07:34,524 It was to frighten the servant of the house. 890 01:07:34,525 --> 01:07:37,266 But, why did you carry any revolver? 891 01:07:37,267 --> 01:07:40,355 Because Johannesburg is dangerous. 892 01:07:40,356 --> 01:07:44,750 So, was your only reason for carrying this revolver, to frighten people? 893 01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:46,490 Yes, sir. 894 01:07:46,491 --> 01:07:49,404 And when you fired that the white man 895 01:07:49,405 --> 01:07:52,100 it was because you yourself was frightened? 896 01:07:52,732 --> 01:07:53,782 Yes, sir. 897 01:07:53,893 --> 01:07:55,362 Did you know... 898 01:07:55,550 --> 01:07:57,250 that the revolver was loaded? 899 01:07:57,500 --> 01:08:00,234 Yes, sir, I knew it. 900 01:08:00,235 --> 01:08:03,441 And if this revolver is just to frighten people... 901 01:08:03,442 --> 01:08:04,800 why must it be loaded? 902 01:08:05,900 --> 01:08:08,383 Were you, perhaps, prepared to shoot it yourself? 903 01:08:08,384 --> 01:08:09,956 No, 904 01:08:09,957 --> 01:08:12,800 I would not have shot a decent person. 905 01:08:12,804 --> 01:08:15,509 Out of shot only if someone that shoted at me. 906 01:08:15,762 --> 01:08:18,387 Would you have shot at a policeman 907 01:08:18,578 --> 01:08:21,485 if he had shot at you in the execution of his duty? 908 01:08:21,633 --> 01:08:23,297 No... 909 01:08:23,500 --> 01:08:24,959 not at a policeman. 910 01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,293 And the white man you did shot... 911 01:08:27,294 --> 01:08:31,300 was he, perhaps, not a decent person? 912 01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,902 I will repeat the question. 913 01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:37,655 The white man you shoted... 914 01:08:37,656 --> 01:08:41,138 was he, perhaps, not a decent person? 915 01:08:46,381 --> 01:08:48,616 I was afraid. 916 01:08:51,300 --> 01:08:54,300 I did no to meant to shoot him. 917 01:08:57,196 --> 01:09:00,276 This case is adjourned until monday in the morning. 918 01:09:00,350 --> 01:09:03,006 All rise! 919 01:09:30,270 --> 01:09:34,317 MISSUS SMITH 24 KILKENNY ROAD - SPRINGS 920 01:10:19,500 --> 01:10:21,955 What do you want? 921 01:10:27,700 --> 01:10:29,400 Umfundisi! 922 01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:34,600 Good morning. 923 01:10:50,300 --> 01:10:53,006 Are you ill? 924 01:10:59,700 --> 01:11:03,332 Thank you, umnumzana (sir). 925 01:11:03,903 --> 01:11:07,903 Are you sure you're not ill, umfundisi? 926 01:11:08,650 --> 01:11:11,624 I am recovered, umnumzana. 927 01:11:13,276 --> 01:11:14,896 Well... 928 01:11:15,820 --> 01:11:18,083 what is it that you are seeking? 929 01:11:35,050 --> 01:11:37,300 I am sorry, umnumzana. 930 01:11:43,377 --> 01:11:46,300 I am sorry to detain you, umnumzana. 931 01:11:48,066 --> 01:11:51,480 It is no matter, umfundisi. 932 01:11:52,284 --> 01:11:54,143 Oh yes, yes... 933 01:11:54,502 --> 01:11:56,614 this is the place. 934 01:11:57,650 --> 01:12:01,285 - There is a man named Sibeko of Ndotsheni. - Ndotsheni? 935 01:12:01,550 --> 01:12:02,890 I know it. 936 01:12:02,900 --> 01:12:05,205 I come from Ndotsheni. 937 01:12:08,334 --> 01:12:10,262 Sibeko's daughter... 938 01:12:10,461 --> 01:12:12,427 worked for a man... 939 01:12:12,462 --> 01:12:14,170 a white man, 940 01:12:14,205 --> 01:12:16,443 uSmith in Ixopo. 941 01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:18,090 And... 942 01:12:18,100 --> 01:12:19,384 and when his daughter married... 943 01:12:19,385 --> 01:12:22,400 and came here to Springs... 944 01:12:22,450 --> 01:12:24,560 Sibeko's daughter 945 01:12:24,571 --> 01:12:27,590 came here also to work for them. 946 01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:30,390 Sibeko has not heard from her these twelve months. 947 01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:33,140 - I see. - And I promise to... 948 01:12:33,150 --> 01:12:35,285 inquire about this girl. 949 01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:40,792 I see. 950 01:12:41,480 --> 01:12:43,500 Ah, yes! 951 01:12:44,229 --> 01:12:46,110 Well... 952 01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:48,761 I am... 953 01:12:50,100 --> 01:12:51,800 I'm a visitor here. 954 01:12:52,020 --> 01:12:54,306 I'm alone today. 955 01:12:54,606 --> 01:12:56,721 It is the server rest day off... 956 01:12:56,722 --> 01:13:00,742 and the daughter of... uSmith... is not here. 957 01:13:09,379 --> 01:13:12,696 But she will soon be returning... 958 01:13:14,446 --> 01:13:16,090 if... 959 01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:19,573 you wish to wait for her. 960 01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:23,250 Please, sit. 961 01:13:23,421 --> 01:13:25,411 Sit. 962 01:13:33,050 --> 01:13:35,166 There is something between... 963 01:13:35,170 --> 01:13:37,190 you and me. 964 01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:40,807 But I do not know what it is. 965 01:13:44,550 --> 01:13:46,390 Umnumzana... 966 01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:47,800 You need not... 967 01:13:47,811 --> 01:13:50,712 be in fear of me, umfundisi. 968 01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:53,206 It is true, umnumzana. 969 01:13:53,207 --> 01:13:54,800 You do not know what it is. 970 01:13:55,008 --> 01:13:57,974 But I desire to know. 971 01:13:58,861 --> 01:14:01,924 It is the heaviest thing of all my years. 972 01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:04,400 Then tell it. 973 01:14:04,420 --> 01:14:06,712 It will lighten you. 974 01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,343 I'm afraid, umnumzana. 975 01:14:11,750 --> 01:14:13,790 I can see. 976 01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:16,632 I can see that you are afraid. 977 01:14:16,997 --> 01:14:18,430 But I tell you... 978 01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:22,671 you need not to be in fear of me. 979 01:14:22,766 --> 01:14:25,978 I shall not be angry. 980 01:14:26,100 --> 01:14:29,495 This thing, that is the heaviest of all my years, 981 01:14:29,894 --> 01:14:32,600 is the heaviest thing of all your years also. 982 01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:38,057 That can only mean one thing. 983 01:14:38,900 --> 01:14:39,847 But I... 984 01:14:39,848 --> 01:14:43,900 I still do not understand. 985 01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:50,300 It was my son... that killed your son. 986 01:15:36,652 --> 01:15:38,792 Umfundisi... 987 01:15:39,480 --> 01:15:43,525 I understand what I did not understand. 988 01:15:45,969 --> 01:15:48,800 There is no anger in me. 989 01:15:49,672 --> 01:15:52,700 Umnumzana!?! 990 01:15:55,162 --> 01:15:57,681 James, we're back. Where are you? 991 01:15:57,682 --> 01:16:00,033 I'm in the garden. 992 01:16:00,487 --> 01:16:02,841 That is my wife. 993 01:16:03,569 --> 01:16:05,282 The mistress of the house is with her -... 994 01:16:05,283 --> 01:16:07,300 the daughter of uSmith. 995 01:16:07,542 --> 01:16:09,776 Do you still wish to see her? 996 01:16:09,777 --> 01:16:11,648 Are you recovered? 997 01:16:11,649 --> 01:16:14,988 It is what I came to do, umnumzana. 998 01:16:22,887 --> 01:16:25,201 Umfundisi... 999 01:16:25,216 --> 01:16:26,726 how did you know me? 1000 01:16:26,727 --> 01:16:28,690 From the court. 1001 01:16:28,700 --> 01:16:32,172 And I've seen you riding past Ndotsheni, 1002 01:16:32,180 --> 01:16:34,626 past the church where I work. 1003 01:16:37,693 --> 01:16:39,873 Perhaps... 1004 01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:44,021 you also saw the boy. 1005 01:16:44,030 --> 01:16:45,334 He too 1006 01:16:45,500 --> 01:16:48,500 used to ride past the church. 1007 01:16:50,054 --> 01:16:52,592 I remember... 1008 01:16:53,500 --> 01:16:55,400 He had the brightness in him. 1009 01:16:56,182 --> 01:16:58,102 Yes. 1010 01:16:58,723 --> 01:17:01,226 He had the brightness in him. 1011 01:17:01,300 --> 01:17:03,631 There you are. We were wondered where... 1012 01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:05,480 - Yes? - Barbara... 1013 01:17:05,500 --> 01:17:07,190 the umfundisi 1014 01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:10,390 has come all the way from Ndotsheni. 1015 01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:13,917 He wishes to inquire about the Sibeko's daughter. 1016 01:17:14,100 --> 01:17:15,391 I had to get rid of her. 1017 01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:16,690 She drunk. 1018 01:17:16,700 --> 01:17:20,316 She is arrested and taken into jail for a month. 1019 01:17:20,317 --> 01:17:22,133 Of course I could not take her back. 1020 01:17:22,134 --> 01:17:24,683 You don't know where she is now? 1021 01:17:24,684 --> 01:17:25,390 No... 1022 01:17:25,398 --> 01:17:27,386 and I do not care. 1023 01:17:33,100 --> 01:17:35,701 I thank you. 1024 01:17:39,206 --> 01:17:40,250 Go well... 1025 01:17:41,300 --> 01:17:43,000 umfundisi. 1026 01:17:43,751 --> 01:17:47,211 Stay well, umnumzana. 1027 01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:02,390 And so... 1028 01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:03,828 under the law, 1029 01:18:03,863 --> 01:18:07,135 a man is held responsible for his actions. 1030 01:18:07,690 --> 01:18:12,961 It is not for a judge to decide how far human beings are in truth responsible... 1031 01:18:13,350 --> 01:18:15,423 but under the law 1032 01:18:15,500 --> 01:18:18,000 they are fully responsible. 1033 01:18:19,500 --> 01:18:21,390 You refer the learned counsel argued 1034 01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:23,790 that the system put in South Africa 1035 01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:27,736 contributes to the circumstances of this case. 1036 01:18:28,100 --> 01:18:33,030 "Have you, ironically, held about the murdered man?" 1037 01:18:33,500 --> 01:18:34,105 But 1038 01:18:34,245 --> 01:18:36,642 it's not for a judge to apportion blame 1039 01:18:36,643 --> 01:18:38,752 and a defective society 1040 01:18:39,164 --> 01:18:42,900 nor is it for a judge to show mercy. 1041 01:18:43,296 --> 01:18:46,356 After long and careful deliberation, 1042 01:18:46,357 --> 01:18:49,240 my assistants and I have decided... 1043 01:18:49,250 --> 01:18:50,767 that the guilt 1044 01:18:50,768 --> 01:18:54,343 of the second and third accused, in this case... 1045 01:18:54,854 --> 01:18:56,896 is not fully proved 1046 01:18:56,900 --> 01:19:00,207 and they are, therefore, discharged. 1047 01:19:01,450 --> 01:19:02,450 Silence! 1048 01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:03,815 Silence in the court! 1049 01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:07,700 Silence in this court room! 1050 01:19:09,300 --> 01:19:11,278 Absalom Kumalo... 1051 01:19:11,900 --> 01:19:14,669 the court finds you guilty of the murder 1052 01:19:14,670 --> 01:19:17,300 of Arthur Trevelyan Jarvis, 1053 01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:20,590 at his home in Parkwold, 1054 01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:24,976 on the eighth of October, 1946. 1055 01:19:26,300 --> 01:19:28,422 Have you anything to say 1056 01:19:28,423 --> 01:19:31,405 before sentences pronounced upon you? 1057 01:19:31,950 --> 01:19:34,490 I have only this to say: 1058 01:19:34,491 --> 01:19:37,500 I killed this man... 1059 01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:40,643 but I did not meant to kill him. 1060 01:19:42,371 --> 01:19:44,511 I was afraid. 1061 01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:46,191 I sentence you, 1062 01:19:46,429 --> 01:19:48,480 Absalom Kumalo... 1063 01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,110 to be returned to the custody 1064 01:19:51,497 --> 01:19:54,690 and to be hang by the neck until you are dead. 1065 01:19:54,700 --> 01:19:57,629 And may the Lord have mercy of your soul. 1066 01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:02,330 All rise! 1067 01:20:17,100 --> 01:20:19,400 Umfundisi... 1068 01:20:25,483 --> 01:20:28,896 It's time to go, umfundisi. 1069 01:20:43,300 --> 01:20:45,840 Come, come! 1070 01:20:56,708 --> 01:20:58,250 My son... 1071 01:20:58,300 --> 01:21:01,813 here is your wife that's to be. 1072 01:21:06,100 --> 01:21:09,929 Theirs in God has joined together, let no man put asunder. 1073 01:21:09,930 --> 01:21:13,649 Forasmuch as Absalom and Katherine have consented together in holy wedlock 1074 01:21:13,650 --> 01:21:17,077 and have witnessed the same before God and this company, 1075 01:21:17,078 --> 01:21:21,693 and there to have given and pledged their troth either to other 1076 01:21:21,728 --> 01:21:25,800 and have declared the same by giving and receiving a Ring, 1077 01:21:25,900 --> 01:21:28,198 and by joining hands; 1078 01:21:28,199 --> 01:21:29,800 I pronounce 1079 01:21:29,812 --> 01:21:32,290 that they are Man and Wife together. 1080 01:21:32,300 --> 01:21:35,190 In the Name of the Father, Son 1081 01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:37,102 and of the Holy Ghost. 1082 01:21:37,103 --> 01:21:38,654 Amen. 1083 01:21:40,397 --> 01:21:43,805 You may now kiss the bride. 1084 01:22:03,842 --> 01:22:07,133 I'm glad you've married, my son. 1085 01:22:07,615 --> 01:22:10,140 I also am glad, my father. 1086 01:22:10,150 --> 01:22:12,990 I shall care for your child, my son... 1087 01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:15,443 as if it were my own. 1088 01:22:19,700 --> 01:22:22,730 When does my father return to Ndotsheni? 1089 01:22:22,743 --> 01:22:24,750 Tomorrow. 1090 01:22:25,202 --> 01:22:28,100 And you will tell my mother that I remember. 1091 01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:30,800 Yes. 1092 01:22:38,650 --> 01:22:41,000 I'm afraid of the hanging. 1093 01:22:41,363 --> 01:22:44,603 - Be of courage, my son. - I'm afraid of the hanging! 1094 01:22:45,700 --> 01:22:47,947 I am afraid of the hanging! 1095 01:22:49,350 --> 01:22:51,857 Old man, you must go now. 1096 01:22:52,410 --> 01:22:54,441 Come on! Come on, let's go. 1097 01:22:54,442 --> 01:22:55,941 Stay well, my son. 1098 01:22:55,942 --> 01:22:58,359 I shall care for your wife and your child. 1099 01:22:59,200 --> 01:22:59,842 Come! 1100 01:22:59,843 --> 01:23:01,864 Stay well, my son. 1101 01:23:01,899 --> 01:23:04,479 - Don't leave me! - Come on! Let's go! Come on. 1102 01:23:04,480 --> 01:23:06,520 No! 1103 01:23:23,500 --> 01:23:24,990 Umfundisi... 1104 01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:26,990 Yes, my child! 1105 01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:30,330 I am now your daughter. 1106 01:23:40,543 --> 01:23:43,690 A taxi will be here at seven to take you to the station. 1107 01:23:43,700 --> 01:23:44,925 Thank you, my brother. 1108 01:23:45,300 --> 01:23:48,544 It is good you are awake, for I wish to speak to you... 1109 01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:51,424 and we may have no further chance. 1110 01:23:53,450 --> 01:23:55,886 I have not told yoy this before, 1111 01:23:57,350 --> 01:23:58,890 but I... 1112 01:23:58,900 --> 01:24:02,202 forsaking the world and all possessions. 1113 01:24:02,617 --> 01:24:03,950 But... 1114 01:24:04,316 --> 01:24:05,728 why? 1115 01:24:05,729 --> 01:24:08,254 Why, my brother, are you doing this thing? 1116 01:24:08,637 --> 01:24:10,480 To pray. 1117 01:24:10,766 --> 01:24:14,700 To pray that my want great fear will not come to pass. 1118 01:24:14,850 --> 01:24:16,862 What great fear? 1119 01:24:17,050 --> 01:24:21,177 I have this great fear in my heart. But one day... 1120 01:24:21,526 --> 01:24:24,600 when the white man turn to loving, 1121 01:24:24,700 --> 01:24:27,000 he will find that we turned to hating. 1122 01:24:38,550 --> 01:24:40,173 I... 1123 01:24:40,893 --> 01:24:43,363 saved a little money. 1124 01:24:44,750 --> 01:24:47,900 I have no mother or father to depend on me, 1125 01:24:48,970 --> 01:24:52,982 I have the permission of the Church to give this to you, my friend. 1126 01:24:53,868 --> 01:24:57,548 To help you with all the money you spent in Johannesburg. 1127 01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:00,600 Do not Cry. 1128 01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:02,566 Do not spoil this pleasure for me. 1129 01:25:02,567 --> 01:25:05,500 For I have never had a pleasure like this one. 1130 01:25:18,193 --> 01:25:19,193 As for your son... 1131 01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:22,450 they may still decide that there will be mercy for him. 1132 01:25:23,750 --> 01:25:26,190 If there is no mercy... 1133 01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:29,796 I will go up to the mountain on that day. 1134 01:25:30,897 --> 01:25:33,967 Twice before I had done this. 1135 01:25:34,477 --> 01:25:38,957 Once when Absalom was pretty small and sick unto death;... 1136 01:25:39,630 --> 01:25:41,939 The second time... 1137 01:25:44,900 --> 01:25:48,911 was when I was solely tempted to commit adultery. 1138 01:25:53,300 --> 01:25:57,000 I have never confessed that before. 1139 01:26:15,519 --> 01:26:17,381 I wish to ask a kindness. 1140 01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:20,990 Ask all that I have, my friend. 1141 01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:25,600 I ask that you will pray for me in this new thing I am about to do. 1142 01:26:25,828 --> 01:26:27,433 I shall pray for you, 1143 01:26:27,434 --> 01:26:29,174 morning and evening, 1144 01:26:29,175 --> 01:26:33,300 all the days that are left, Msimangu, friend of friends. 1145 01:26:33,900 --> 01:26:35,915 Thank you. 1146 01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:39,044 What is it Ms. Lithebe? 1147 01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:40,740 I'm sorry, umfundisi... 1148 01:26:40,750 --> 01:26:42,925 but your sister, Gertrude, is gone. 1149 01:26:43,132 --> 01:26:45,404 She must have gone in the night. 1150 01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:10,003 He is, I think... 1151 01:27:10,100 --> 01:27:12,777 the only truly good man I have ever met. 1152 01:27:13,070 --> 01:27:15,038 Then why, I wonder... 1153 01:27:15,039 --> 01:27:17,900 this god not showing many mercy? 1154 01:28:12,100 --> 01:28:15,100 It is umfundisi! 1155 01:28:21,400 --> 01:28:23,288 Umfundisi! 1156 01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:33,600 What are these cries, James? 1157 01:28:34,100 --> 01:28:37,251 What are do they saying? 1158 01:28:38,766 --> 01:28:40,350 They're saying... 1159 01:28:43,043 --> 01:28:45,655 that he has come back. 1160 01:28:48,500 --> 01:28:50,463 Oh, Lord God! 1161 01:28:50,464 --> 01:28:54,089 We thank Thee for Thy unending mercy. 1162 01:28:54,339 --> 01:28:55,593 Oh, God! 1163 01:28:55,594 --> 01:28:58,635 Give us rain, we beseech Thee. 1164 01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:03,390 Give us rain, that we may plough and sow our seed. 1165 01:29:03,400 --> 01:29:05,242 And if there is no rain, 1166 01:29:05,500 --> 01:29:10,700 protect us against hunger and starvation, we pray Thee. 1167 01:29:10,761 --> 01:29:12,966 And also Lord God... 1168 01:29:12,967 --> 01:29:15,571 for my son, Absalom... 1169 01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:19,435 forgive him his trespasses. 1170 01:29:19,700 --> 01:29:20,711 Amen. 1171 01:29:20,850 --> 01:29:23,078 Amen. 1172 01:29:25,900 --> 01:29:29,376 Let me read back to you now. 1173 01:29:29,411 --> 01:29:31,600 "My dear mother and father..." 1174 01:29:32,417 --> 01:29:36,500 They told me this morning there will be no mercy. 1175 01:29:36,937 --> 01:29:41,600 So, I shall not see you or Ndotsheni again. 1176 01:29:41,740 --> 01:29:45,038 I'm dictating this to a priest. 1177 01:29:45,328 --> 01:29:48,573 A black priest from Pretoria. 1178 01:29:48,769 --> 01:29:50,868 "This is a good place." 1179 01:29:51,439 --> 01:29:55,273 I am locked in, and no one may come and talk to me. 1180 01:29:55,862 --> 01:29:58,091 But I may smoke 1181 01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:02,300 and the white men do not speak badly to me. 1182 01:30:02,889 --> 01:30:05,981 I think of you all at Ndotsheni, 1183 01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:08,790 and if I were back there 1184 01:30:08,800 --> 01:30:11,095 I should not leave it again. 1185 01:30:11,669 --> 01:30:14,900 "Your lovely son, Absalom. " 1186 01:31:18,360 --> 01:31:20,095 Umfundisi! 1187 01:31:20,400 --> 01:31:22,779 May I can shelter in your church? 1188 01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:24,380 Indeed! 1189 01:31:24,381 --> 01:31:27,000 Indeed, Umnumzana. 1190 01:31:43,200 --> 01:31:45,273 It will soon pass. 1191 01:31:49,900 --> 01:31:51,800 The roof leaks. 1192 01:31:52,600 --> 01:31:54,660 So I have noticed. 1193 01:32:12,604 --> 01:32:15,852 The roof leaks in many places. 1194 01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:18,982 I have noticed that also. 1195 01:33:25,950 --> 01:33:28,573 It is passing. 1196 01:33:39,473 --> 01:33:41,669 Your son... 1197 01:33:42,200 --> 01:33:44,300 have you heard... 1198 01:33:44,710 --> 01:33:46,500 is there... 1199 01:33:46,525 --> 01:33:49,430 mercy for your son? 1200 01:33:58,782 --> 01:34:00,800 When is it to be? 1201 01:34:01,600 --> 01:34:04,323 In fifteen days from now. 1202 01:34:04,358 --> 01:34:07,101 At dawn. 1203 01:34:36,408 --> 01:34:39,690 Within comes to the dawn of the fifteen day 1204 01:34:39,700 --> 01:34:42,000 I shall remember. 1205 01:34:45,011 --> 01:34:47,623 Stay well, umfundisi. 1206 01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:42,590 Tomorrow the thing will happen. 1207 01:35:42,600 --> 01:35:45,327 It is the fifteenth day. 1208 01:35:45,328 --> 01:35:48,300 I'm going up into the mountain. 1209 01:35:48,905 --> 01:35:51,399 Perhaps I could have food. 1210 01:35:51,900 --> 01:35:54,821 It is all that it made. 1211 01:35:59,458 --> 01:36:02,000 I thank you. 1212 01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:27,444 Is that you, Umfundisi? 1213 01:36:28,037 --> 01:36:30,561 Yes I, umnumzana. 1214 01:36:33,500 --> 01:36:35,550 There we are. 1215 01:36:35,570 --> 01:36:37,575 Well met. 1216 01:36:40,100 --> 01:36:42,080 But I knew... 1217 01:36:42,081 --> 01:36:45,074 that you would go up into the mountain... 1218 01:36:45,075 --> 01:36:47,909 on the fifteenth day. 1219 01:36:53,650 --> 01:36:55,411 Oh, yea... 1220 01:36:55,503 --> 01:36:57,790 I have here a letter... 1221 01:36:57,800 --> 01:37:00,784 for the people of your church. 1222 01:37:04,500 --> 01:37:06,440 The letter asks... 1223 01:37:06,450 --> 01:37:09,874 if you desire a new church. 1224 01:37:11,046 --> 01:37:13,190 Do you, umfundisi? 1225 01:37:13,200 --> 01:37:16,234 Do you desire a new church? 1226 01:37:18,100 --> 01:37:21,062 The plans will shortly come to you. 1227 01:37:21,097 --> 01:37:24,419 And you must say if they are what you desire. 1228 01:37:24,420 --> 01:37:28,301 I shall send them to the Bishop, umnumzana. 1229 01:37:29,050 --> 01:37:32,002 And you will know what to do! 1230 01:37:32,900 --> 01:37:34,900 Perhaps... 1231 01:37:34,955 --> 01:37:37,300 they could build a stone... 1232 01:37:37,301 --> 01:37:40,785 with the name... of my son... 1233 01:37:41,600 --> 01:37:44,600 who aren't brightness anymore. 1234 01:37:45,254 --> 01:37:48,622 It shall be done, umnumzana. 1235 01:37:51,577 --> 01:37:55,008 Go well, umfundisi. 1236 01:37:58,108 --> 01:38:02,090 Who knows for what we live and struggle and die? 1237 01:38:02,100 --> 01:38:05,200 Who knows what keeps us living and struggling... 1238 01:38:05,265 --> 01:38:07,700 while all things break about us? 1239 01:38:07,900 --> 01:38:11,840 Who knows why the warm flesh of a child is such comfort, 1240 01:38:11,841 --> 01:38:13,300 when one's own child 1241 01:38:13,350 --> 01:38:16,800 is lost and cannot be recovered? 1242 01:38:17,047 --> 01:38:18,739 Wise men write many books, 1243 01:38:18,740 --> 01:38:21,290 in words too hard to understand. 1244 01:38:21,291 --> 01:38:24,140 But this, the purpose of our lives, 1245 01:38:24,220 --> 01:38:26,096 the end of all our struggle, 1246 01:38:26,097 --> 01:38:28,600 is beyond all human wisdom. 1247 01:38:29,100 --> 01:38:31,795 Oh God, my God, 1248 01:38:31,796 --> 01:38:33,505 do not Thou forsake me. 1249 01:38:33,506 --> 01:38:37,447 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 1250 01:38:37,448 --> 01:38:39,930 I shall fear no evil, 1251 01:38:39,931 --> 01:38:43,239 if Thou art with me�. 1252 01:39:06,300 --> 01:39:08,100 What is it my daughter? 1253 01:40:51,380 --> 01:40:56,077 For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, 1254 01:40:56,078 --> 01:40:58,078 never failing. 1255 01:40:58,079 --> 01:41:03,490 But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, 1256 01:41:03,500 --> 01:41:07,000 from the fear of the bondage and the bondage of fear, 1257 01:41:07,010 --> 01:41:10,498 why, that is a secret.