In Bosman’s life-time, the South African `racial problem’ was taken to mean the hatred against the English-speaking ascen- dancy felt by the Afrikaners, the Boers who had lost a bitter war, and lived in poverty on their farms, or were driven to look for work in alien cities like Johannesburg. Bosman wrote as …. In the year Bosman qualified as a teacher, 1925, his father was killed in a mining accident, and his mother married an Englishman with a grown-up son. At the …
