My view on apartheid is very similar to the others in my class.  The whole idea may have been acceptable at one time, but now a days, the thought of such a thing is just crazy.  I can't imagine having to live in such a time where the person I love is not allowed to be with me because of the color of their skin.  In the story, the two have a very deep bond that was present for a long time.  After so many years of not seeing each other very often, the two were still able to reconnect and remember what they had before.  The fact that a baby, which usually unites a man and a woman together, actually drove them apart, is very sad.  The baby should have been the one sure thing in the world that would insure the couple's love.  However, because of apartheid, the opposite happened.  Paulus couldn't handle all the gossip about the baby, and ended up killing the baby.  Of course, nothing is proven.  However, I find it hard to believe that a man who talks about wanting to be dead because of a baby, and then the baby turns up dead, is innocent of murder.  Also, the fact that the two never really saw each other anymore, just solidifies his guiltiness.  If he wasn't guilty, he would have tried to stay with Thebedi.