You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Hoping to make his way as a writer he faced considerable challenges as a South African as Carol Polsgrove has shown in her history Ending British Rule: Writers in a Common Cause (2009). His novel Mine Boy (1946) one of the first works to bring him to critical attention and his memoir Tell Freedom (1954) deal in part with apartheid.