- To get ready for the inspection, everyone is going crazy getting the prison spic and span. Even the prisoners are given brand new uniforms to wear just during the visit. Captain Smit organizes a boxing exhibition, and the kommandant has Doc signed up for a concert.
- To prepare his concert, Doc has been listening to the prisoners, who are divided up by tribe for their recreation time, sing their traditional songs. He has arranged a piece called "Concerto of the Great Southland" that includes a song from each tribe, and plans to play it, with prisoner participation, as a tribute to the prisoners before he leaves.
- Since the prisoners can't be called together to rehearse, Geel Piet instructs them as to what their roles are in the concert at night, and Doc practices as loud as he can so that they can hear the music.
- Peekay is supposed to be the director, cuing each tribe when they should enter and exit with their song. The fact that the Tadpole Angel is directing the people is a really exciting prospect for the prisoners.
- Lieutenant Borman hates the idea of the concert, so Captain Smit, who doesn't like Borman, supports it.
- Geel Piet suggests that Peekay wear his boxing uniform to direct the concert, and Doc and Peekay love the idea. This way he looks even more like a warrior leader to the people.
- The night of the concert, Geel Piet doesn't show up, and no one seems to know where he's gone.
- The show must go on without him, and as Peekay passes Lieutenant Borman's office on the way to the parade grounds he notices that someone is being beaten up in the interrogation room, which is an all too usual occurrence.
- Doc plays his concerto through, and then Peekay leads the prisoners singing along in the second run-through. It is some of the most beautiful music ever heard, and the people shout "Onoshobishobi Ingelosi" over and over, which Doc takes to be approval for his work, even though they are actually shouting for the Tadpole Angel, Peekay.
- Just then fireworks set off in the town, because the war in Europe is declared over, but the beautiful spectacle just adds to the Tadpole Angel's legend. As he walks back into the prison, Peekay hears someone shout "Onoshobishobi Ingelosi" from the gymnasium.
- Doc cries, overcome at his freedom, and both Peekay and Doc wonder where Geel Piet must have gone.
- Gert comes to drive Peekay home, which is a very unusual occurrence, and Peekay runs to change in the locker room before they go. In the gym, he finds Geel Piet dead in the ring, in a pool of blood, holding the photo of Captain Smit, Doc, Gert, Peekay, and himself.
- Peekay screams and holds Geel Piet until Captain Smit picks him up and rocks him, promising to avenge him.
- The inspector comes the next Saturday night, and Doc is so upset about Geel Piet's death that he doesn't want to play. The kommandant insists, though, and Doc has to play.
- Dee and Dum and Mrs. Boxall help get the house ready for Doc's arrival, and he gets back to work on his cactus garden.
- Mrs. Boxall and Doc's reunion after four years is emotional, and Mrs. Boxall is invited to the inspector's concert that weekend. She reveals that she has a plan for keeping the Sandwich Fund going even after the elements of Doc and Geel Piet are gone.
- At the inspector's concert, Gert tells Doc and Peekay that Lieutenant Borman had lost favor with the kommandant that afternoon, because he had called the capital about the prisoner's concert to tattle on the kommandant. The inspector, however, had thought it was a marvelous example of prison reform, so Borman lost that fight.
- Doc plays a Chopin nocturne for the inspector, and then announces that he has named his second song, formerly known as "Concert of the Great Southland," "Requiem for Geel Piet."
- The inspector is moved to tears, and says that Geel Piet must have been a great Afrikaner who is honored by the music, which Geel Piet would have found to be a funny irony.
- Captain Smit leads the boys, including Peekay, in a boxing exhibition, ending with Peekay, the smallest, fighting Klipkop, the biggest, which is fun for the crowd.
- After the exhibition, Klipkop tells Peekay and the others to meet in the gym, and to sit in the dark and wait very quietly. They do, and after a while Captain Smit, Klipkop and Lieutenant Borman enter and gather under the single light over the ring.
- Captain Smit tries to get Lieutenant Borman to box him, but he refuses. Finally, captain Smit unrolls a canvas that is covered in blood. It is the canvas that was on the ring the night Geel Piet died, and Peekay starts to cry. Gert covers his mouth and holds him so that no one will hear him.
- At first Lieutenant Borman denies that he had anything to do with Geel Piet's death, but he does admit to calling the capital to tell them about Doc's concert for the prisoners, which he calls "the kaffir concert."
- Captain Smit punches Borman in the stomach, and Borman answers with a punch to the captain's testicles, sending him to the ground. He hits Smit again as he tries to get up, then starts shouting that he did kill Geel Piet. He says that he caught Geel Piet with two letters in his pocket, which Peekay would have delivered, and that he tortured him to try to get him to tell who brought them in.
- Borman says that Geel Piet wouldn't tell, even when Borman shoved the rubber baton up his rectum, causing his entrails to come out and killing him. Captain Smit gets up and calls Borman to the fight, and hits him twice in the face. Borman won't fight, though, and Klipkop and Smit roll him up in the bloody canvas, saying that Geel Piet's blood will haunt him until he dies.
- When Klipkop and Smit leave, an African who had been watching in the darkness shouts a salute to the Tadpole Angel and leaves to tell the people. They will curse Borman now that they know what he did to Geel Piet.
- When Peekay returns to the party being held for the inspector he is still very shaken, but Mrs. Boxall has good news for him. She has convinced the kommandant and brigadier to let her implement a letter-writing service on Sundays for the prisoners as part of prison reform.