The bride. The wedding took place on her father's farm near Barkly East. She met the groom when she was working in a café and he in the Magistrate's Court at Zastron. Now he was to begin as a clerk on the railways. 'Ek wil opgaan' (I want to rise), he said. They would start married life in Welkom in the Free State where his father worked on the gold mines.

printed 2006
silver gelatin print on fibre paper
40.5 x 27cm

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