Van Blerk Genealogy

Name

"SP"
Born in Harare
Married 20.9.1975

An extract from http://zimbabwefood.blogspot.com
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
SP - van Blerk
This is a tragic story.....
The Commercial Farmers Union expresses its most sincere condolences to the van Blerk family on the tragic death of SP, husband of Gill and father of Simon and Mark.
After having his father, his one year old daughter and his first wife Gerda, (pregnant with twins) blown up in a landmine during the bush war, SP remained committed to farming in Zimbabwe. SP married Jill years later, and they were blessed wit h the birth of two sons, Simon and Mark.
A successful tobacco farmer in the Rusape district, they were violently evicted off their farm a few years ago, and were forced to leave with what they could fit into two vehicles. Having been robbed of their entire life achievements and never b een compensated a single cent, they struggled valiantly to rebuild their lives in Harare from scratch.
When SP fell to his death at the age of 54 on Saturday evening, he died as one of the many heroic commercial farmers from Zimbabwe.

President, Council and Staff of CFU.
Posted by Odette H Lind at 7:11 AM