<p>'A precious and rare publication ? The moving stories of love, longing and suffering provide valuable new insights into tumultuous times that helped shape South Africa.' ? Max du Preez<br>It is nine months this evening since I last saw the light in my own house, when I had to tear myself away from all that is dear to me. And today is also my little son's birthday. Oh, how I long for home.<br>So wrote Michael Muller in 1901 as he gazed at the l...