Missing pieces
Lesley LawsonAn investigation into my family history tells the story of white South Africa and the story of me.
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Missing Pieces coda
Lesley Lawson, Drakensberg resort. Photo Hector Lawson, circa 1956.
Nearing the end of my family story I was still procrastinating over one last venture: an ancestry DNA test. This would enable me to confirm the practical questions a...
A family affair
There are still Bosmans farming in the western Cape, some 18 kilometres from Hermanus Bosman’s 18th century homestead, and one fine March day in 2026 I find myself en route to Lelienfontein farm outside Wellington.
Two friends have nobly a...
Peace wantonly disturbed
Groot Constantia, the Cape’s first wine farm, built and sustained by
enslaved people for over 150 years. Photo Lesley Lawson, 2026.
My fourth great-grandparents, Willem Jan and Aletta Klerck, kept a large and luxurious house in a d...
Enter the Klerks
VOC army officers being rowed ashore by slaves. Table Bay, 1783. Slave Lodge.
The ancestors whose portraits graced my childhood home represent the only branch of my family who came from patrician stock. Their bearing spoke of confide...
Eternal light
Slave bell, Grande Roche, March 2026, Lesley Lawson.
In 1995, while directing a documentary series on the Christian missionaries in South Africa (God Bless Africa), I visited a chapel in the grounds of a five-star hotel outside Paarl...
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