by Andre Vaalbooi | Sep 26, 2018 | Andriesvale, History, People
. Maria Moss has worked on a farm since she was 15 years old. Maria would start her duty in the morning at 6 o’clock when she had to make coffee for the white people and help with breakfast. After this she would go to feed the chickens while the people were...
by Andre Vaalbooi | Sep 21, 2018 | Andriesvale, People
“My name is Ciella Barends, I live at Witdraai, I am 68 years old.” Ciella briefly shares her story and experience as domestic worker. She was a young woman when she started working with her parents on farms. She was very happy to help her parents and...
by Andre Vaalbooi | Aug 24, 2018 | Andriesvale, People, San Heritage
Food is something one can’t live without, especially when there is a family. It was hard to survive, but Bushmen have planned their life in nature: by following the tracks of the animals and the rain they could manage to make a living. Men and women were...
by Andre Vaalbooi | Aug 15, 2018 | Andriesvale, History, People
About 20 years ago the #Khomani bushman got some land back. On one of their farms called Witdraai, close to the police station, there is a grot (cave) where in the past, before the police station was built, the police held some of the bushman people they arrested....
by Andre Vaalbooi | Aug 8, 2018 | Andriesvale, People
Plants have grown in the Kalahari since long before people were there. The San who were the hunter gatherers called bushmen were the first to experiment with the nature. The Bushmen were aware of their health and they started to do research on the plants. The only way...
by Andre Vaalbooi | Aug 1, 2018 | Andriesvale, People
Sometimes one cannot think it’s normal, but it’s real. The Bushman of the past were suffering a lot with access to water. It was hard. There were no dams or boreholes like today, but there were pans that were sometimes full of water and at these times they...
