Fiona Timms – The White Zulu – Part Two: Herman Charles Bosman’s “Mafeking Road”
- 2021-11- 24 - Fiona Timms – The White Zulu – Part Two: Herman Charles Bosman’s “Mafeking Road”
These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use of wit and clear- sighted judgment. Spun by the plainclothes local visionary and storyteller Oom Shalk Lourens, these moving and satirical glimpses of lethargic herdsmen, ambitious concertina players, legendary leopards and mambas, and love-struck dreamers lay bare immense emotions, contradictions, and mysteries within the smallest movements and unadorned talk of the Groot Marico District. Leading oral tradition by the hand into a territory all his own, Bosman maps a world at once lucid and layered, distant yet powerfully familiar.
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FIONA.THIS WAS MOST ENJOYABLE .
Fabulous Fiona, thank you
That poor leopard was just looking for companionship. Instead he received a bullet from a Mauser. Very sad. Also a tragic ending to the whirlwind romance of Minnie and Koos. Koos was obviously a SKELM !! Thanks Fi.