In The Nation, is told the story of a South African Negro girl who left her employment suddenly and departed to her kraal (hut). Her employer, a farmer, drove to the kraal, took the girl back to his farm and there flogged her. But this was not enough. He tied her up by the neck to a beam in a rat-infested barn. An hour later, the girl was found dead: the tips of her fingers had been gnawed off by the rats.
This abominable crime shook the whole Union of South Africa. The farmer was charged with homicide, tried, sentenced to only...
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