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Herman Charles Bosman

Died in 1951

Herman Charles Bosman was born on 3 February 1905 in Kuils River, near Cape Town, and spent almost all his life in the Transvaal. A former pupil of Jeppe High School in Johannesburg, trained as a schoolteacher, he was appointed in January 1926 to a bush school in the western Transvaal. A family tragedy brought him a heavy sentence the same year; he spent four years in prison and was released on parole in 1930. He became a journalist and died in 1951, aged forty-six.

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