genealogy...
my mother's maternal family name is gibbons, from her british grandfather. her paternal family name is karua from her malawian father.
my father's family name is jonas ...
after my grandmother's funeral i learn that she was the 1st 1 in her family to move out of their williston farm town household to the big city of cape town. my grandmother's brothers had fought in world war two & were stationed in egypt but they returned to the village afterwards ...