Fiela's Child
{{Infobox book | name = Fiela se Kind(Fiela's Child) | title_orig = Fiela se Kind | translator = | image = Fiela's Child.jpg | caption = | author = Dalene Matthee | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = South Africa | language = Afrikaans | subject = | genre = Drama | publisher = Tafelberg Publishers Ltd | pub_date = 1985 | english_pub_date = 1986 | media_type = Hardcover/Movie | pages = 314 | isbn = 0-394-55231-8 | dewey= 823 19 | congress= PR9369.3.M376 F5 1986 | oclc= 13003348 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Fiela's Child is a South African drama written by Dalene Matthee and published in 1985. The book was originally written in Afrikaans under the name Fiela se Kind'', and was later translated into English, German, French, Hebrew, Dutch, Slovene and Swedish. Plot The story is set in the forests of Knysna, South Africa in the nineteenth century, and tells the story of a Cape Coloured woman, Fiela Komoetie, and her family who adopts an abandoned Afrikaner child Benjamin Komoetie at tender age of three found outside her door. Nine years later, census-takers come to count the people living in the Long Kloof. They