(Part 1 of 2) As a child, I lived in an almost exclusively Afrikaans speaking community, and English speaking people were bullied terribly at school - we even had rocks thrown at us. One day, the teacher just laid into me with a ruler, saying I was ‘a damned Englishman!’ When my father found out, he was so angry that he decided to send me to an English speaking boarding school, which I hated - I was bullied there too, and I was very homesick. I used to climb a tree and just pine away. But it was there that I first . . .
(Part 1 of 2) As a child, I lived in an almost exclusively Afrikaans speaking co…
