The doctors looked at chris johannes.
They were both dead. They kept the place up with their bodies so that we could get out!'a mine boy cried and begin to sob (Mine Boy).
The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because

In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if

Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because

Nani's sternness and frequent use of the cane

Kongi's harvest is