Broke, but still looking good…
Whenever I cried about something I couldn’t have, moaned about wearing homemade crimplene dresses that looked the same as my sister’s, or left food uneaten on my plate, the grandparents sighed, got that far-off look in their eyes, pursed their lips and informed me just how bad it was way back in their days…
It was the rinderpest, the great depression, the great drought, and still being stuck under colonial rule that caused their hardship. One ancient great-grandmother of mine, still wearing a Voortrekker bonnet around the time that I was about twelve, even referred to the concentration camps to prove her point. This was while knocking
