Familiengeschichte auf der Missionsstation Mosego, der Farm Mecklenburg und in der Stadt Pietersburg (Südafrika)

In the transgenerational and transcontinental history of the Winter family, conflict and divisions played a major part. J. P . D. Winter, a son of nineteenth-century missionary parents, married twice to establish himself in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga regions. In his first marriage, wealth and regional connection constituted the resources he converted into family wealth. In his second marriage,“whiteness” became the asset he based his family fortunes on. Interactions between the two emerging family lines were perhaps uneasy, but possible as long as the family lived on somewhat remote farm land. They were cut short once the family, or families, had to move to colonial Pietersburg when, in accordance with the Native Land and Trust Act of 1936, the family farm was sold. Tracing and remembering this part of the family story has become a prior concern of one of J. P . D. Winter’s descendants who, again, recollects conflict and divisions against the backdrop of an ever changing, and, as regards her societal standing, highly ambivalent post-apartheid South Africa

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