This week, we pick up Oom Willem’s trail in what appears to be his first visit to the Bushveld. In Episode 9 of his digitised 16 mm film, we see him visiting either friends or family on a farm, seemingly in the Mokopane area, around the late 1920s or early 1930s. The film contains no distinguishing landmarks by which one can definitively determine where it was taken, but the almost 100-year-old labelling on the 16 mm reel does offer some clues.
Struggling to determine the location, we o...