Herman Charles Bosman visits Bedford today

If you are in Bedford today at 5pm, stop in at the Bedford Club to hear words from the printed pages of the legendary Herman Charles Bosman brought to life.

“Herman Charles Bosman should never be left on the shelf. He needs to be taken down and read. The pages with his short stories should be worn and used over and over and over again.”

This is what Cape Town actor David Muller and his theatre director Celia Musikanth feel about Bosman’s writings. To this end, Muller is appearing in the Bedford Club, Bedford, this evening to tell a few of Bosman’s best in the show Oom Schalk, from the Heart.

Thanks to Bedford resident Gina Buijs he will also be visiting the local high school to explain to the matric class just why Bosman is so vital to the heritage of South Africa.

“Bosman was not only a brilliant writer he was also an alternate character in real life and he knew how to party! He would do anything for a laugh,” said Muller.

“At the age of 15 he was writing for the Sunday Times under the pseudonym Ben Eath and when the editor discovered Ben was a school boy, he stopped paying him and publishing the stories.

“He entered a poetry competition while at university and came third. While receiving his prize he told his adjudicators he had filched the poem from Percy Byscche Shelley.”

Oom Schalk, from the Heart is at 5pm in the Bedford Club, Bedford. Tickets at the door are R80, pensioners R50 and school pupils R40.

Further information from Gina on 082-494-9177.