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1921 – 1922
Cousin August Behrens had left Bethanie and had bought property under Magaliesburg near Oorsaak and had established a trade store in Kroondal and leased out Bethanie.
In 1921 I bought Boshpoort 16 for about 200 Bakwena, each one of them paid ₤ 36 that had to be paid by 1929 and were also paid by then. The owners call this farm Makaboma, it borders on Berseba.
I tried to convince the Bakwena of Bethanie and told them
that it would be to their advantage if the former store of cousin August would become a shop of the people with shares and dividends. I put in great effort, but it failed because of the stupidity of Captain Johnny who had no understanding of a cooperative store.
With Johnny as captain we had not really moved forward.
He drank and did what was not good. Because of unlawfully purchasing and owning brandy he came into conflict with the police and ended up in the Rustenburg jail where he even had to scrub the floors. For example, when he returned home drunk from Rustenburg one evening, he ordered all young people to find and kill all village pigs, even the fat ones, in the stable. There was much commotion that night and it was the evening before a big confirmation and dampened the entire sense of festivity. On Sunday morning the