An Evening with Oom Schalk and other old friends. Marius Weyers was born on a farm. He rode horses and was surrounded by calves and donkeys. As a child he sometimes ploughed with oxen. On Saturday mornings he rode in his father’s bakkie, full of vegetables and hides for sale at the Johannesburg market. Whilst his father traded, Marius, fortified by a bottle of cold tea and a clutch of hard-boiled eggs, went off to the movies.
Who then could be more qualified to interpret the words of Herman Charles Bosman than this son of the Highveld? Marius will read stories featuring Oom Schalk Lourens as well as taking a literary dip into A Bekkersdal Marathon. A more serious contrast will be reflect
