“Maggie. My life in the camp” is an honest, simple and intimate account of a young girl’s story in a South African concentration camp in Howick, remarkably shared without any pro-Boer or anti-British sentiment.

The book was loaned to me by a beautiful South African-Polish lady whom I’ve just met at our new parish of St Joseph’s Cedara. Returning the book to Zofia (which means ‘wisdom’) I instinctively reached for one of my thank-you cards printed of a painting of a rural church, also here in the Midlands.

Binding it all together with twine, I included twigs of wild grasses and flowers that I had picked from our plot of land in the River Goose Estate …. which I’m told is the very land upon which stood the concentration camp.

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