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Sanni Metelerkamp, a talented South African playwright and author born in 1867, is best known for her captivating biography of her great-grandfather, George Rex—a British entrepreneur credited with founding the town of Knysna, rumored to be an illegitimate son of King George III. However, her most significant contribution to literature may well be her collection of folk tales, which she affectionately described as the common property of every country child in South Africa. By the time she published Outa Karel’s Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales in 1914, the nation had endured a period ...

Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, George Rex, the British born entrepreneur who founded the town of Knysna and was rumoured to have been an illegitimate son of King George III. Possibly her greatest legacy however is the publication of a collection of folk tales which in her own words "… are the common property of every country child in South Africa." By the time she published "Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales" in 1914, South Africa had come through a time of great ...