Sannie Metelerkamp
(Sanni ?) (18**-19**) Author and playwright. A great-granddaughter of George Rex. Her great-uncle was thus Frank Rex who the family claim wrote Kaatje Kekkelbek, and her uncle was Frank Muller Rex, editor of the Oudshoorn Courant, who was also involved with the first performance of C.J. Langenhoven's Die Hoop van Suid-Afrika.
She wrote a biography of the pretender, and a play In die Dae van Van Riebeeck ("In the days of Van Riebeeck" - 1932), with which she was Joint winner (with J.W.S. Schumann) of the inaugural Krugersdorp Municipal Dramatic and Operatic Society (KMDOS) Playwrighting competition in 1932. Apparently she had written it originally in English, then translated it.
George Rex of Knysna: The Authentic Story by Sanni Metelerkamp, written by one of his descendants is the story of Knysa's founder.
Book Title:
George Rex of Knysna. The Authentic Story
Author:
Metelerkamp, Sanni
Introduction by:
J. Rex Metelerkamp
Publisher:
Howard Timmins
Sources
(See Du Toit, 1988, Binge, 1969) [TH, JH]
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