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“Strangely hard natures were bred in the South Africa of that day”. rural settler childhood, 1850s‐1880s

“Strangely hard natures were bred in the South Africa of that day”. rural settler childhood,... African Studies, 58, 1, 1999 "Strangely hard natures were bred in the South Africa of that day". Rural Settler Childhood, 1850s-1880s1 Simon Dagut University of the Witwatersrand Introduction On a summer day in the early 1870s, Elsa Dietrich, eldest daughter of a German immigrant to the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, and then aged about twelve, was playing with her younger brother Albrecht on the banks of the Blyde River, near their father's farm in the Lydenburg district. The river was in flood and a few people had gathered to watch the water roaring past with its freight of uprooted trees and drowned cattle: There were half a dozen white people and one kaffir watching when a crocodile made its appearance, so close that it became clear that one of us was to be snatched. Sure enough once more the superstition that all crocodiles prefer black to white people came true, for in the twinkling of an eye the poor kaffir had a leg torn off. My brother and I looked on placidly, for already we were comfortably certain that the life of the meanest white person was of greater value than that of any black. (Lloyd and Wilson 1935:59)2 As Elsa http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Studies Taylor & Francis

“Strangely hard natures were bred in the South Africa of that day”. rural settler childhood, 1850s‐1880s

Dagut, Simon
African Studies , Volume 58 (1): 21 – Jul 1, 1999
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African Studies, 58, 1, 1999 "Strangely hard natures were bred in the South Africa of that day". Rural Settler Childhood, 1850s-1880s1 Simon Dagut University of the Witwatersrand Introduction On a summer day in the early 1870s, Elsa Dietrich, eldest daughter of a German immigrant to the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, and then aged about twelve, was playing with her younger brother Albrecht on the banks of the Blyde River, near their father's farm in the Lydenburg district. The river was in flood and a few people had gathered to watch the water roaring past with its freight of uprooted trees and drowned cattle: There were half a dozen white people and one kaffir watching when a crocodile made its appearance, so close that it became clear that one of us was to be snatched. Sure enough once more the superstition that all crocodiles prefer black to white people came true, for in the twinkling of an eye the poor kaffir had a leg torn off. My brother and I looked on placidly, for already we were comfortably certain that the life of the meanest white person was of greater value than that of any black. (Lloyd and Wilson 1935:59)2 As Elsa

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