1963
from Letters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 May 2019
Summary
Robert Sobukwe,
Pretoria Prison,
to Veronica Sobukwe,
26 March 1963 (Bc2)
Hello Darling,
Since my future is still so uncertain, I thought I should take this opportunity to tell you just how much your courage and love have meant to me during all these years of my imprisonment. Human nature is a queer thing, Darling. It is quite possible that after a time I may forget what you suffered on my behalf. That is why I want you to have this written testimony from me so that we both of us can go back to it in future. I just wish to say, Child, that you have been a magnificent wife and mother. You have been everything I could have wished my wife to be. And I mean that, Little Woman. And the children, too, will agree with me!
I received a letter from Buti. He didn't have much to say except to express the hope that we will soon meet. By the way is J.D. back yet or does he no longer intend to return to Joh'burg?
Then there is the question of my wood & coal business in Standerton. Segegede and I went 50-50 and money can be withdrawn from the bank only if the cheque bears the signatures of both of us. We placed some amount in fixed deposit, renewable every year in July. This was [illegible].
Please tell Stan that Emmanuel's wife has written to say she won't be coming to see him any further. She is employed and finds it impossible to come during the week. Will he please arrange that somebody else visit the boy? We would be extremely pleased if Z.B. could do so even if it is just once. And of course Perry can do so – as a prospective sister-in-law.
I shall be getting the next Reader's Digest early next month. You can write immediately to the Head Office in Cape Town to tell them to send the May Issue to 684 Mofolo and all the other issues from then on. You can forward them from Joh'burg to wherever I am or we can make further arrangements later. But please inform them, Sweet, of the change of address. It requires six weeks advance notice.
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- Lie on your WoundsThe Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, pp. 15 - 52Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2019