The thing that is upsetting to the Sergeant-major is the White family does not realize the seriousness of the paw, and take the paw and him as a magical fairy tale.
Well I actually thought it was an option for students to make up their own mind on when they want to go to college. Some students receive scholarship of a subject they passed with high Honor's, so they probably go away to college right away. Some students have good paying jobs so they don't want to go off to college right away.
By depicting how Kumalo is robbed upon arrival in Johannesburg, the novel reflects the crime that was prevalent in urban areas of South Africa in the 1940's.
We need to know what passage in order to know who Jillian is