Meet the people

Janet and Edward Oberholster

Retirees

Sitting at Die Ketel coffee shop, you don’t expect to have a conversation with two Vosburg residents in English.

“We’ve been living here since 2000 and I still can’t speak Afrikaans,” says Janet. “I know the basics like, ‘Daar is niks’ or, ‘Vat dit.’ I do at least understand it a bit better now. I always tell people, ‘Talk to me small.’”

Chatting to Janet and her husband, Edward, who were both raised in Zimbabwe, will probably be the only English you’ll hear in Vosburg. When they were