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his actions and died without having sorted out this matter. His son Egmond was elected as director and rectified the injustice in that he granted father and myself and the congregation Bethanie a special status directly under the director and no longer under Penzhorn! We maintained this status until father died in 1900. We did not attend the conferences and also had
a separate salary account. In the event of him leaving the Mission, father had intended to farm on Waaikraal and during that time showed me for the first time his document that contained the donation of his farm and the clause that provided for a repayment of ₤ 300. He stayed in Bethanie under the special status and a heavy heart over the undeserved insult.
The three contract years of cousin August with Fuls had come to an end and he came to us in Bethanie and started trading with skins with the support of father. He bought dry skins from blacks and whites and then sold them with a profit to Beckett. Then he married Dora Wenhold and lived on father’s farm Waaikraal and worked the farm. Later his mother came from Germany with Georg and they lived with him and died there. He lived there until in 1904, after the boer war, he built himself an own house in Bethanie.