It was a musical version of the famous novel about Africa, "Cry,the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton.

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In the opening pages of Cry, the Beloved Country, the poignant novel about a disintegrating Zulu family, Alan Paton depicted the barren land left to the tribe by the late 1940s and, with bitter brevity, described what had befallen the people struggling to survive on it.

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