ABSTRACT
Sarah Gertrude Millin immortalized the half-caste in South African literature with her God's Step-children. Her most interesting and important books were those dealing with the colour question. The ‘coloured’ is furnished with a guitar, the Indo sentimentally drowned in krongtfong music. In the oeuvre of Sarah Gertrude Millin, there is no noble savage throwback which endows the savage with nobility, beauty and innate innocence. Sarah Gertrude Millin was the daughter of a Jewish immigrant from Poland, who came to South Africa in 1888 when she was only five months old. In Michael Anthony, his Vhite son’, are concentrated all the myths of white ethno-aestheticians. He is blond and handsome, virile and popular, a sportsman of no mean ability — a veritable Apollo.
