Alan Paton: weeping for the beloved country

SOURCE: The fabric of dissent: public intellectuals in South Africa
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Pienaar
SOURCE EDITOR(S): V.Reddy, N.Bohler-Muller, G.Houston, M.Schoeman, H.Thuynsma
KEYWORDS: INTELLIGENTSIA, PATON, ALAN, POLITICS, RACIAL SEGREGATION
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11896
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15931
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15931

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Abstract

Alan Stewart Patons novel Cry the Beloved Country was instrumental in alerting the world to the horrors of apartheid at about the same time the National Party came into power in 1948. And its success gave Paton the economic freedom to devote his life to the two things that mattered most to him, and that he did extraordinarily well writing and political activism. His strong faith and deep sense of fairness permeated everything he did from advocating against corporal punishment to contributing to the establishment of one of South Africas first truly multiracial political parties.

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