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In his final year he won the English and history prizes. ' And for the first time young Detlev heard the strategy of his life spelled out-and he compre- hended every word. His intellectual brilliance inherited mostly from his maternal grandfather, Christoffe Steyn, s She had delivered a smashing wood, sharp right-to-left, that knocked away two of cc o-poocat's bowls, and when

it, raised high above the congregation, from which a young predikant with brilliant forcefulness had begun to deliv One morning he was stopped by police on Eloff Street, Johannesburg's glitter- ing shopping avenue, and his documents were demanded: 'I see you haven't paid your annual tax of one pound. e broken through all our frontier line Grahamstown and the Boer commandos can't hold them bac They're destroying everything in their path. in motion, not frantically and not in leaping bounds, but with a dignity befitting their exalted place in the animal kingdom.