Culture of South Africa "July's People", was released in 1981, depicting the collapse of white-minority rule. Athol Fugard, whose plays have been regularly premiered in fringe theatres in South Africa, London (The Royal Court Theatre), and New York City. Olive Schreiner's "The Story of an African Farm" (1883) was a revelation in Victorian literature: it is heralded by many as introducing feminism into the novel form. Alan Paton published the acclaimed novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" in 1948. He told the tale of a black priest who comes to Johannesburg to find his son, which became an international best-seller. During the 1950s, "Drum" magazine
The Cry and the Covenant street telling women to demand of their doctors that they wash their hands, and otherwise behaving so erratically that he is committed to an insane asylum, where because of a cut finger he contracts and dies of the very disease he spent his life fighting. A legacy of Semmelweis, highlighted in "The Cry and the Covenant", is that hand washing, to this day, remains the most effective method of preventing the spread of infection. The Cry and the Covenant The Cry and the Covenant is a novel by Morton Thompson written in 1949 and published by Doubleday. The novel is