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We had two masters of the spoken word in South Africa, General Smuts and his lieutenant J. H. Hofmeyr, whose life I wrote. Smuts spoke in a high-pitched voice, not the kind of voice that one would expect from a famous soldier, but he too could hold an audience in the hollow of his hand, partly because he was Smuts, partly because he could say nothing trite or shallow, partly because he knew how to speak to ordinary men and women.

Alan Paton

Alan Paton

Alan Paton

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Born: January 11, 1903

Died: April 12, 1988 (aged 85)

Bio: Alan Stewart Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.

Known for:

Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)
Too Late the Phalarope (1953)
Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful (1983)
Tales from a Troubled Land (1961)
Towards the Mountain: An Autobiography (1980)

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