Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… Thaba 'Nchu. These men had gone to war and had sent their women and children to the Cape, and my mother was called in … we had been told that these soldiers would mishandle the women. When the British arrived in Thaba Nchu, they seized … necessities. There were hundreds, perhaps thouÂsands, of women, children and very old men. Some had come voluntarily …