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In the sheltered basement of a wayside rest-house a gang of native hammock-bearers slept or chattered drowsily through the last hours of the long mid-day halt ; wide awake , yet almost motionless in the thrall of a heavy lassitude , their European master sat alone in an upper chamber , staring out through a narrow window-opening at the native village , spreading away in thick clusters of huts girt around with cultivated vegetation . Individuals and organisations wishing to lend their support should contact their nearest ANC or SACTU office to establish the most effective way this can be done . Now he arrived one weekend a month to sit opposite his father in the sitting room and correct copies and read the newspaper while Puccini played on the small stereo and the light died in the street outside . An early message had said that Comus was ill , which might have meant much or little ; then there had come that morning a cablegram which only meant one thing ; in a few hours she would get a final message , of which this was the preparatory forerunner . But I did not notice this particularly till , on turn - ing a bend in the road , I came upon a scattered fringe of wood ; then I recognized that I had been impressed unconsciously by the desolation of the region through which I had passed .