"Roly Kingwill, over the past fifty years, has tackled some of the toughest issues facing a farmer in South Africa. He began with having to make a living from the rugged, inhospitable terrain of the Karroo, his land lying 6000 feet high in the Sneeuberg, freezing in Winter, baking hot in Summer; drought one moment, soil being washed away in thunderstorms the next!
But, more important, he has opened the way for new policies on many crucial questions: Soil Erosion; the relationship between white bosses and black workers and the quality of life for these workers; universal unemployment. What he began as individual intitiatives in these spheres has become, in many cases, Government Policy.
What impelled him to these initiatives? More was needed than merely liberal goodwill, or even a vigorous Social Concience. What held him firm in face of much opposition, discouragement, hardship and doubt? It all began in 1937..."
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