Then again, he created a wealth that would last many generations and engineered advantages for his children and successive generations. Dawie with millions in the bank or me with my family with two kids. I thought about those words often over the years and wondered who was a millionaire at twenty-five. He told me many times whenever I brought the subject of marriage up, that he would marry as soon as he made his millions. My friend, David (Dawie) de Villiers-Graaff had a different focus. Not on account of the position of her grandfather but because they thought I would never find a wife! My parents were delighted with our relationship. Her grandfather on her mother’s side was the British High Commissioner to Zambia and was very English. We fell in love and decided to build a life together. Soon after I started my transport business, I married the daughter of a German immigrant who set up a blacksmith business, making wagon wheels in Port Elisabeth, Colin Beckmann.
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