Kumalo and Msimangu follow Absalom's trail only to learn that Absalom has been in a reformatory and impregnated a young woman
Jarvis learns of his son's death and comes with his family to Johannesburg Jarvis and his son had been distant, and now the father begins to know his son through his writings

مدرسة الحوش الثانوية / لها علينا يد سلفت و دين مستحق

Msimangu urges Kumalo to come to the city to help his sister Gertrude, because she is ill.

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مدرسة الحوش الثانوية / لها علينا يد سلفت و دين مستحق
Assured, Kumalo embarks on the search for his son, first seeing his brother John, a carpenter who has become involved in the politics of South Africa
مدرسة الحوش الثانوية / لها علينا يد سلفت و دين مستحق
Kumalo returns to his village with his daughter-in-law and nephew, having found that Gertrude ran away on the night before their departure
مدرسة الحوش الثانوية / لها علينا يد سلفت و دين مستحق
When he gets to the city, Kumalo learns that Gertrude has taken up a life of prostitution and beer brewing, and is now drinking heavily
Absalom is sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur Jarvis Shortly thereafter, Kumalo learns that his son has been arrested for the murder during a burglary of Arthur Jarvis who was an engineer , a white activist for racial justice and son of Kumalo's neighbour James Jarvis
The novel ends on the morning the sun rise after Absalom's execution She agrees to return to the village with her young son

Lub

Help arrives, however, when James Jarvis becomes involved in the work.

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مدرسة الحوش الثانوية / لها علينا يد سلفت و دين مستحق
Before his father returns to Ndotsheni, Absalom marries the girl who is carrying his child, and she joins Kumalo's family
مدرسة الحوش الثانوية / لها علينا يد سلفت و دين مستحق
Through reading his son's essays, Jarvis decides to take up his son's work on behalf of South Africa's black population
Lub
Back in Ixopo, Kumalo makes a futile visit to the tribe's chief in order to discuss changes that must be made to help the barren village