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1926 – 1928
I bought 400 acres of Vogelfontein from L. Krüger, found
out too late that the piece was not cut off and in order to be
the boss I had to buy out all other shareholders in Portion
K and then Portion J for myself and Lüneburg so that I then had a total of 1 200 acres in Vogelfontein and had put all my money into this, which had not been my intention initially. But according to everything that I knew and that I had heard and seen I thought that there would also be minerals and that the money would be regained in that way. This did not happen and in 1942 I had to sell everything again at a great loss. Edwards had given me the syndicate shares as a gift. I sold 10 of these at ₤ 500 and bought the house that is on four erven in Brits and where we are still living today. It was not wise of me to put my money into Vogelfontein and that caused me great loss, worries and distress because I had to borrow money on this and pay interest.