![]() This is a way of life which, for various reasons, has come to an end and has, in more ways than one, been laid to rest with Ouma Mieta in her grave. ![]() Die Laaste Karretjiegraf is a story about the Karretjie People and a tribute to the heritage of the direct descendants of South Africa’s first inhabitants. Sarah is of Afrikaner descent and has in the meantime completed her dissertation in Anthropology on the subject of Karretjie children.Īlthough Afrikaans is both Sarah and Koot’s mother tongue they are worlds apart they are, however, connected by shared experiences of pain, guilt, remorse, love and ultimately hope. During his detention in the local prison, Ouma Mieta looked after his children. He has just been released from prison where he served time for murdering his second wife. During Koot’s years of roaming he was the informal spokesman for a team of Karretjie sheepshearers at the Brug outspan. In the new play, Koot and Sarah meet after many years on a farm in the Karoo at the grave of Koot’s mother, Mieta Ackerman. ![]() Fugard’s “The Blue Iris” at the Fountain Theatre (US Premiere, 2012).
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