Tant Nellie Haasbroek, of the farm Heimweeberg in the Marico Bushveld, Transvaal (North-West Province), 1964.
Tant Nellie Haasbroek, of the farm Heimweeberg in the Marico Bushveld. She spent the days in her old farmhouse and nights at her son's place nearby.
When Herman Charles Bosman came to teach at the farmschool on Heimweeberg in 1926, he boarded for a time with her. Late one night, when a pranksome Bosman fired rifle shots over the roof of their house, she told her husband: That fellow is going to end on the gallows. A few months later Bosman shot and killed his stepbrother in Johannesburg. His death sentence was eventually commuted to a term of imprisonment and Bosman later went on to write stories about life in the Marico Bushveld.
When Herman Charles Bosman came to teach at the farmschool on Heimweeberg in 1926, he boarded for a time with her. Late one night, when a pranksome Bosman fired rifle shots over the roof of their house, she told her husband: That fellow is going to end on the gallows. A few months later Bosman shot and killed his stepbrother in Johannesburg. His death sentence was eventually commuted to a term of imprisonment and Bosman later went on to write stories about life in the Marico Bushveld.
printed 2006
silver gelatin print on fibre paper
30 x 46cm
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