[Part 2] Herman Charles Bosman: Ou Liedjies En Ou Stories (The Selons-rose)
Channel: My Outcast State
Date: 05/01/2012

This reading is of a South African bush tale in Afrikaans called 'Ou Liedjies En Ou Stories' or 'The Selons-rose", which means oleander in British English. It is a story about story telling, and it takes place in the Groot Marico (Great Marico), a remote collection of farming towns in the north of South Africa. The author, Herman Charles Bosman, was as lively and colourful as the characters in his stories, which are much loved for their warm, irreverant depictions of a way of life that seems to be ebbing away in modern South Africa.

Subtitles are supplied for English speakers.

Ek is lief vir die stories van Bosman oor die Groot Marico, en het hulle baie, baie keer op Engels gelees. Hierdie leesing is van "Verborge Skatte", wat 'n seleksie van vertaalde Bosman stories inhaal. As jy kan maklik hoor, is Afrikaans nie my moedertaal nie -- ek het dit self geleer sonder Afrikaners te leer ken (ongelukkig) -- en ek is seker dat ek ten minste 'n paar foute gemaak het. Vergewe my daarvoor asablief. Ek hoop dat jy dit nogtans my leesing kan geniet.