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Grace Rawlings
Grace Rawlings was born in 1934 - the 3rd child of Robert and Eileen Tarr - a couple with strong 1820 settler roots. Her father's brother Ralph had married her mother's sister Dais...view moreGrace Rawlings was born in 1934 - the 3rd child of Robert and Eileen Tarr - a couple with strong 1820 settler roots. Her father's brother Ralph had married her mother's sister Daisy, and the extended family lived on adjoining farms settled in 1847 by her grandparents in the shadow of the Windvogel mountain outside Cathcart in the Eastern Cape of South Africa . She grew up speaking Xhosa and English in roughly equal parts and developed a love of the Eastern Cape. Though she lost an elder brother and her Father at an early age she blossomed under the influence of the large extended family and her independent, unconventional mother. She and her Cousin Kenneth were home schooled together by her mother before progressing to the village school in Cathcart where they both excelled. She later completed a Bachelor of arts degree at Rhodes University and qualified as a teacher before marrying Vic Rawlings and moving to KwaZuluNatal where she taught for many years. Throughout her life she has maintained a deep connection with the peoples and cultures of the Transkei and Eastern Cape of South Africa, and an interested, optimistic approach to life in a unique period in South African history. Grace's story gives modern multicultural South Africa a personal glimpse of its journey from its tribal and colonial roots to the present.view less