The Kumalo Family

"Kumalo looked at his letter. It was dirty, especially about the stamp. It had been in many hands, no doubt. It came from Johannesburg; now there in Johannesburg were many of his own people. His brother John, who was a carpenter, had gone there, and had a business of his own in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. His sister Gertrude, twenty-five years younger than he, and the child of his parents' age, had gone there with her small son to look for the husband who had never come back from the mines. His only child Absalom had gone there, to look for his aunt Gertrude, and he had never returned. And indeed many other relatives were there, though none so near as these. It was hard to say from whom this letter had come, for it was so long since any of these had written, that one did not well remember their writing."
— Cry, the Beloved Country

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• Stephen
• Mrs. Kumalo
• Absalom
• Absalom's Girl
• Gertrude
• John
• Matthew
• Theophilus Msimangu
• Fater Vincent
• Mrs. Lethebe