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    The document tells the true story of Klara Majola, an 8-year-old girl who froze to death after getting lost searching for her blind father in the bitterly cold Koue Bokkeveld region of South Africa in 1950. The story inspired poems and other literature that sought to memorialize Klara's brave but tragic act of helping her blind father.

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    The document tells the true story of Klara Majola, an 8-year-old girl who froze to death after getting lost searching for her blind father in the bitterly cold Koue Bokkeveld region of South Africa in 1950. The story inspired poems and other literature that sought to memorialize Klara's brave but tragic act of helping her blind father.

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    The document tells the true story of Klara Majola, an 8-year-old girl who froze to death after getting lost searching for her blind father in the bitterly cold Koue Bokkeveld region of South Africa in 1950. The story inspired poems and other literature that sought to memorialize Klara's brave but tragic act of helping her blind father.

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    KLARA MAJOLA

    The story of Klara Majola is based on the


    true tale of a young girl's
    bravery in search of
    her blind father.

    This happened
    60 years ago.
    The story is set in
    the Koue
    Bokkeveld,
    which is known
    for its bitterly
    cold winters.
    Ceres and The Koue Bokkeveld
    The Koue Bokkeveld (Cold goat country)
    is one of the coldest places in the Western
    Cape in our winter
    from
    June to August.

    It is also called Little Switzerland because of


    the high snowfall in winter.
    Ceres and The Koue
    Bokkeveld
    Ceres and The Koue Bokkeveld
    As soon as a person drives over the
    crest of the Gydo pass, just outside
    Ceres, there is a turnoff to the left
    with the sign, Agter-Witzenberg. It is
    a narrow road that leads through the
    mountains and opens up inside a
    completely new valley filled with
    vineyards and fruit-trees.
    Klara Majola lived in this remote
    farm community with her father
    who was blind and the rest of the
    family.
    This story has been
    taken up in various
    ways in Afrikaans
    literature.
    A Newspaper article in
    Burger,
    DieDieBurger
    Burger

    31 July 1950
    On the 31'st of July 1950, the
    Cape newspaper Die Burger
    ran the
    following
    news
    item which
    I loosely
    translate
    here.
    Frozen in the Veld
    Went searching for her blind father

    Ceres. -- An 8 year old black girl froze to


    death one night in the last week after she
    went looking for her blind father and got
    lost.
    She is Klara Majola.
    She lived on Mr. Ernst van Dyk's farm,
    Die Eike, in Agter-Witzenberg.
    Klara made it a habit
    to lead her blind dad
    around the farm and
    to take him to places
    where he could
    gather wood.
    Later she would then
    go fetch him.
    Her mother went to a
    nearby farm during the
    day. She came back at
    dusk and wanted to go
    fetch her husband, but
    Klara offered to do it.
    It appears that she could not find
    her father and got lost. The
    workers and other occupants of the
    farm went to look for her. Her
    father answered their call, but
    Klara could not be found. Shortly
    after finding her father, it started to
    Rain.
    Mr. Van Dyk only
    heard about the
    events the next day.
    He immediately
    gathered a search
    party. Klara was
    found dead in a road.
    It appears that she slipped over
    some rocks in a stream and fell
    into the water. She was to cold
    and frozen to get up. Her one arm
    was under her body and the other
    hand was in her mouth.
    It was particularly cold that night
    and a thick layer of snow had
    fallen.
    D.J. Opperman
    was so affected
    by the story that
    he wrote a poem
    about it in Engel uit die
    klip, Tafelberg, 1951. The
    title of this poem was
    "Klara Majola".
    Majola
    The story was also
    transformed into a
    short story by
    Boerneef in a
    compilation,
    Teen die Helling.
    The title of this story
    was "Klara Mentoor".
    Mentoor

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