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• Hij is geboren op 12 november 1905.
• Hij is overleden op 30 januari 2001, hij was toen 95 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Hendrik Jacobus van der Spuy en Harriette Eedes Cloete

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g3) Sebastian Valentine van der Spuy (Bas). The following is an account of the tragic death of Bas, as written by Annie van der Spuy during the 1980’s):

“Our brother Bas, 16 years old went to school at Paarl Boys’ High in Paarl. He was a very good looking boy and he could play the violin well. During Easter in 1906, he and a friend, De Kock, came to our farm for the holidays. On Easter Monday, 6th April, our (eldest) brother Hennie and Bas and his friend took guns and went into the veld to shoot buck etc. Our mother, who was pregnant, recalled that Bas said to her ‘ek sal ‘n bokkie huistoe bring’.

As they were walking in the veld, Kockie (the friend) climbed through a wire fence when his gun went off. The bullet went through brother Hennie’s jacket and into Bas’ stomach. He collapsed and said ‘Kockie, wat het jy gedoen? Hennie Help!’ Then he died.

Kockie then wanted to shoot himself, but Hennie grabbed all the guns and hid them behind some bushes, and ran home, about three miles (5km). My father and our overseer (Manager) accompanied Hennie in the open cart and went to fetch the boys.

In the meantime my poor mother prepared bandages for she was told that there had been an accident. She at first thought that the youngest child (Annie) had fallen from the steps of the stoep. When the cart arrived, she was relieved to see her two sons. She had mistakenly identified Kockie as being Bas, as he was wearing Bas’ hat. When she realized that it was Bas’ body which was being carried from the cart to my father’s study, she fainted and fell on the stoep.

The death of his favourite son hit my father very badly. There was a big funeral. Kockie’s parents came from the Transvaal.

Kockie finished his schooling at Paarl and became an attorney. He later committed suicide”

(Annie was only two years old when Bas died, and her recollections would have been the result of the details being told and retold during her childhood years.)

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