Tes Rogers
Jan Heystek: Landdrost, Prisoner of War and Last Years (1)
1898–1926: Continuing with the last few stories from Oupa-grootjie Jan Heysteks’ autobiography.
For our Heystek family, life was tranquil and happy during the years that Jan was the Landdrost clerk in Rustenburg, according to his daughter Emmie’s letters that she wrote many years later. In 1898 five of the Heystek children were still at home: Emmarenske, Abraham, the twins Josina and Jacoba, and young Maria, although Emmie was engaged to be married later that year. Abraham was seventeen and not quite ready to leave home yet.
