GRAND FATHERS OF KALLIE DE BEER

My grandfather, Karel Johannes De Beer and my mother's father, Petrus Cornelius Pelser visited us in Noordhoek, Bloemfontein during the nineteen sixties. They were both in their eighties, however, still strong at that time and enjoying life with their grand children. After their wives, Petronella and Maria respectively died earlier in their marriages, Oupa Karel stayed on in his house at Petrusburg while Oupa Pelser moved in with us. They both worked on the South African Railways construction workers on the railway tracks of the Orange Free State province before retirement. "Oupa" Pelser fought in the Anglo Boer War and was caught by the British troops and deported to Bermuda while "Oupa" Karel was interned as a young boy in a British concentration camp on Spitskop, next to Bloemfontein.

WOODWORK MODELS OF KALLIE DE BEER, 1969

In my training as a technical teacher at the Bloemfontein Teacher's Training College, I preferred to work with emboya wood. It is a dark wood and has a distinctive smell. Quite nice to work with, however, you may experience some cross grain knots if you did not buy the right batch. It is also excellent for the lathe. Currently it is a very expensive wood in comparing it to the nineteen sixties and the seventies. My daughter, Sanmarié and her husband Louwrens Schlebusch still uses it in their bedroom.

BAREND PETRUS DE BEER WITH HIS CHILDREN IN ENGLAND

Our brother Ben (nicknamed "Oubaas") with his son, Benny (also Barend Perus De Beer) and his wife, Jessica, on the left. Next to Oubaas sits his daugther, Ronel de Beer during their visit to the UK in 2010. Oubaas is a primary school teacher at the Universitas Primary School in Bloemfontein. Benny works in the UK and is a British citizen.

BEN DE BEER'S LATHE WORK

My brother, Ben de Beer, is also a woodwork teacher. He designed this reading lamp for the lounge in 1977. It is made of Rhodesian Teak which is a very hard wood. Woodwork teachers of the years before 1994 were very fond of this wood which was quite cheap and very easy to purchase anywhere in South Africa.

KNOTTY PINE CEILING BY KALLIE AND CHRISTO DE BEER

Example of father and son's ceiling design with South African pinewood, also known as "notty pine".

CABINET MAKING: CHRISTO AND KALLIE DE BEER

Example of son and father's cabinet making from old wooden furniture (Oregan Pine).

SOLAR POWER FOR HOT WATER (SONKRAG WARM WATER)

A farmer of Dealesville in the Free State, designed the solar heating system above and which was reported in an Afrikaans Newspaper, Volksblad. It is a simple mesh cylinder in which a black PVC plastic pipe is coiled and then covered with a strong white transparent plastic sheet to keep the heat inside. The cold water inlet is fixed at the bottom and the hot water tap on the end of the pipe on the top. Readers can see the e-mail address for further information.

KOEKSISTER MONUMENT, ORANIA

My wife, Christa and her mother visited the Koeksister Monument in ORANIA. A Koeksister is a sweet delicatessen which resembles a sort of a doughnut recipe, but does not taste like it. It is a typical Voortrekker/Afrikaans recipe and has no English name. On his visit to ORANIA, the former president of South Africa, Mr. Nelson Mandela also enjoyed some Koeksisters with the widow of one of the former prime ministers of South Africa, Dr. Hendrik French Verwoerd, Mrs. Betsie Verwoerd. When the previous president of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Busch, visited South Africa a few years ago, he also got hooked on Koeksisters !(Koeksister recipes can be googled how to prepare and cook this sweet little delicatessen snack.)

MOTHER IN LAW, CCW VAN WYK

My mother in law, Christina, Catharina Wilhelmina Van Wyk (nee) Van Schalkwyk, was born in the little southern Free State town of Luckhof. On her 85th birthday, my wife, Christa and I took her to the church where she was baptized. She currently lives in Johannesburg and Leeukrans respectively with her two sons, Jannie and Willie. She remembered her father who worked on the railway lines from Luckhof and later in Winburg in the northern Free State. After completing her school career, she moved to Johannesburg where she met my father in law, Jan Johannes Booysen Van Wyk. She worked as an admin clerk in the Johannesburg General Hospital and later on in the Art School. Her mother's maiden name was Boshof.

PETRUS CORNELIUS DE BEER AND SISTER ANNAMARIE

On the lower photograph is my brother, Petrus C de Beer (Pieter/ Piet) on his 62nd birthday with his two sons, Duan and Jeandré. On the top photo is Pieter with our only sister, Annamarie and her husband Johan Broderick.

BAREND PETRUS DE BEER AS CHILD

Barend Petrus de Beer stands right behind his mother, who sits next to their eldest sister Hannetjie. Two brothers, Karel and Flippie stand at the back next to Barend. The photo was taken during the depression years (circa 1933) in Petrusburg. Dolly, an elder sister and Willie, the baby brother, do not appear on the photo.

CLOCK OF CAREL J DE BEER, PETRUSBURG

My grandfather, Oupa Callie de Beer, who lived in Petrusburg, ordered this clock from a Cape Town merchant during the 1930's. On the faceplate one can read that this Swiss clock was assembled in Cape Town. My cousin, Johan de Beer, a deputy school principal at the Central Primary School in Bloemfontein, got the clock serviced and still uses it in his dining room.

WOODWORK ARTE FACTS OF KALLIE DE BEER

One of my hobbies is to renovate old Oregon den furniture. Predominantly,I am restoring it simply for my wife's home decorations only. My son, Christo, is more of an artist as well as a woodworker. Working with wood, runs in our family since the first De Beer set foot in the Cape hundreds of years ago.

From Fauresmith to Jagersfontein: Diamond tourist trial

This road sign gives direction to the deepest hand dug diamond mine in the world where some of the most precious stones of DeBeers were discovered. From Jagersfontein via Fauresmith on route to Kimberley, one could also visit the Koffiefontein diamond mines.

FAURESMITH ON THE DIAMOND TRIAL TO KIMBERLEY

This little southern Free State town where some of my great parents' family was baptized in the impressive white NG Church parish (read Nether Dutch) in the background, is situated between the Koffiefontein- and Jagersfontein diamond mines.(See my Blog elsewhere for Jagesrsfontein's diamonds of the DEBEER's diamond company). My father,Barend Petrus de Beer, who was a steam train driver, told us many stories about international photographers who took pictures of his steam engine in the middle of the town's main street. Amazingly, no accidents were reported in the years that my father steamed through this little town...

LEO KRUGER; MENTOR NUMBER TWO

Leonardus Kruger, our neighbors way back in the railway settlement of Noordhoek in Bloemfontein next to the railway lines to Johannesburg, studied law on a part time basis at the University of the Orange Free Sate. He always encouraged us also to take up part time lectures while working on a full time basis. His encouragement and evidence of his law qualifications inspired me to follow suit. Subsequently his interest in my studies in Political Science and International relations inspired me to complete my doctoral studies as well. Due to Leo's leadership in our railway neighborhood where nobody had any tertiary qualifications except the pastor and the pharmacist, he played a pivotal role to develop our self image. However, Leo was also a very lively person who liked pranks and many other mischievous ideas such as loading the smaller kids into the boot of his car to the drive in theater. It worded like this: " Kids come and wash my car and I will take you to the drive inn. After that, you ask your mother for spending money". Part of our spending money was for his entrance fee. Once inside, we all crawled out of the boot on the dark side of the theater and shared our hot dogs and potato chips while watching the movie for free! We did the same when we traveled with him to Maselspoort, a holiday resort nearby Bloemfontein. Maselspoort is situated next to the well known Boyden Observatory which we sometimes inspected at random. For all of us it was only a secret and eerie place which did not make much sense to us at that stage.(See my Blog elsewhere on the South African Large Telescope for my later interest in Astronomy). Also in his later life, he organized overseas trips for the local farmers of Koffiefontein where Leo practiced as a lawyer. After wards he hired the hotel dining room, projected photographs of the Grecian isles,threw a real Greek party where they smashed the plates and danced on this foreign music in this little Free State town until very late at night... After they calmed down the hotel manager, they promised to settle the Bill for the broken plates the next morning. The famous South African author, Ettiéne Le Roux, who lived nearby on his farm "JA-NEE" (read YES-NO) complimented Leo on his idea of a real Greek party and assured him that it was the best he had ever experienced so near to his farm. (Koffiefontein is very renowned for its diamonds and readers can view some photo's elsewhere on my Blog of where the Diamond Trial for tourists start via Fauresmith and Jagersfontein to Kimberley.)

PAUL LOOTS OF CAPE ST FRANCES, SOUTH AFRICA

On the right of the photograph stands Paul Loots with his family in Germany before boarding a boat on the Rein river. Way back in 1966, I worked for a tire company in Bloemfontein. Paul was a woodwork teacher and came in for a new set of tires where we met for the first time. I admired the wooden dashboard of his Mini Minor and took a keen interest in his career as woodwork teacher at the Dr Viljoen School. He asked me whether I have a matric certificate and said that I could also get a bursary from the Orange Free State Department of Education to study for a woodwork teacher. I gave it a good thought and enrolled the next year in 1967. Subsequently, he mentored me all the way because of my more matured age than my fellow students at the Bloemfontein Teacher's Training College. He gave me some books and notes as well and encouraged me when he detected some hesitant trends in the making. Later in his career, Paul Loots qualified himself in pshycology. We studied both evening lecturers at the University of the Orange Free State when I commenced with my career in Political Science and International Relations. Paul and his wife, has a son and a daughter. Their son, Samuel, is a Boeing pilot who planned the boat trip in Germany.

MATERNITY WARD; BLOEMFONTEIN

The maternity ward where I as well as my two sons, Johan and Christo were born at the National Hospital in Bloemfontein. Currently it is used to consult marginalized patients who are in need of medical treatment. The milk box in front of the entrance is used by the security man to sit down during the night. Still, the building which was build in 1938, holds a special remembrance for the older folks of Bloemfontein where most of the babies were born until the new maternity wards were built elsewhere in the city. Sanmarié, our daughter, was one of the first round of babies to be born in the new Universitas Hospital.

SANMARIé ENJOYS TO BALL'ET

Sanmarié, a professional Modern Dancing instructor, surprised us when she also started off with ballet classes. Christa is very proud of her achievements thus far and hope that Sanmarié will be full filling her dreams in this performing art

SANMARIé AND SANé SCHLEBUSCH

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