WANGIES EN MINA
Wangies was Pikenien and Sarah's oldest son. He was handsome. He was Pedi and handsome at the same time. Pikanien and Sarah lived on our Witpoort farm. Some eight or more Pedi families lived on our bushveld farm. Mina came to Witpoort from the bushveld farm, where she lived. She came to help my mother with housework and looking after four young children. There were lots of families and lots of people working and living on both farms at the time, when I grew up. At any given good morning there would have been around twenty or more people working and helping and so it was that Mina who came to help at Witpoort, but lived on the bushveld, farm fell in love with Wangies. Mina was the loveliest person. She was beautiful and sweet all at the same time. She laughed often and quickly. There used to be a building behind the house but it was later torn down. The creamery was in this building. All the milk was processed...
