Valley Song | Abraam Jonkers
Abraam Jonkers is a "Coloured" (mixed-race) South African man in his seventies. Called ‘‘old Buks’’ by everyone in his village and "Oupa" by his granddaughter, Veronica, Abraam has lived his entire life in Nieu-Bethesda, a small village in the Sneeuberg Mountains of South Africa's great Karoo region, except for his short service as a prison guard in the Transvaal during World War II. Both he and his father, Jaap Jonkers, have been tenant farmers on the property of the Landmans, a white family. When he was a boy, his father explained to him that if he grew up to be a good man, then...
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