The Seed Is Mine

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985 ( ISBN 080909603X), written by Charles van Onselen, is a profound social history of one man and his struggle in a racially divided South Africa. Van Onselen paints a stark picture of the relationship between landowner and farmer and its development in an increasingly racist society.

The Seed is Mine was awarded the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction in 1997.

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